Quotes by Hans Urs von Balthasar

Hans Urs von Balthasar

Above all we must not wish to cling to our suffering. Suffering surely deepens us and enhances our person, but we must not desire to become a deeper self than God wills. To suffer no longer can be a beautiful, perhaps the ultimate sacrifice.

Beautiful

Sacrifice

Self

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

Farewell

Leaving

Sadness

Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly crucifixion and death, the Christ upon the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of who God is.

Christ

Ugly

Who God Is

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

God Life

Issues

Life And Death

But the saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor. (Nor should the Karl Barth who so loved and understood Mozart be regarded as such.)For humor is a mysterious but unmistakable charism inseparable from Catholic faith, and neither the “progressives” nor the “integralists” seem to possess it – the latter even less than the former.

Aunt

Catholic

Saint

Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character.

Catholic

Character

Christian

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

Faith

Love

Unity

Everything in Irenaeus is bathed in a warm and radiant joy, a wise and majestic gentleness. His words of struggle are hard as iron and crystal clear, … so penetrating that they cannot fail to enlighten the unbiased observer.

Iron

Struggle

Wise

Faith means the fundamental response to the love that has offered itself up for me. It thus becomes clear that faith is ordered primarily to the inconceivability of God’s love, which surpasses us and anticipates us. Love alone is credible; nothing else can be believed, and nothing else ought to be believed. This is the achievement, the ‘work’ of faith: to recognize this absolute prius, which nothing else can surpass; to believe that there is such a thing as love, absolute love, and that there is nothing higher or greater than it.

Achievement

Believe

Mean

Her (Mary’s) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world.

Children

Father

Son

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Absolutes

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Aggravation

Alone In Love

Attitude

Aunt

Baptism

Beautiful

Being Unloved

Believe

Bridges

Catholic

Character

Children

Christ

Christian

Church

Commitment

Community

Credible

Decision

Demand

Duality

Easter

Encounters

Eye

Faces

Faith

Fall

Farewell

Father

Finding The One

Finite

Firsts

Giving

God Life

God Love

Heart

His Love

Humanity

Infinite

Inspiration

Iron

Issues

Jesus

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Quotes by Hans Urs von Balthasar

Hans Urs von Balthasar

Above all we must not wish to cling to our suffering. Suffering surely deepens us and enhances our person, but we must not desire to become a deeper self than God wills. To suffer no longer can be a beautiful, perhaps the ultimate sacrifice.

Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.

Being disguised under the disfigurement of an ugly crucifixion and death, the Christ upon the cross is paradoxically the clearest revelation of who God is.

But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.

Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character.

Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.

Everything in Irenaeus is bathed in a warm and radiant joy, a wise and majestic gentleness. His words of struggle are hard as iron and crystal clear, … so penetrating that they cannot fail to enlighten the unbiased observer.

Her (Mary’s) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his shoulders the burden of a guilty world.

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