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[God loves us, not such as we are by our merit, but such as we will be by his own gift]
— Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Lovers are the ones who know most about God; the theologian must listen to them.
— Hans Urs Von Balthasar
The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.
— Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Love alone is credible.
— Hans Urs Von Balthasar
It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.
— Hans Urs Von Balthasar
What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.
— Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Every mystery of life has its origin in the heart.
— Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.
— Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Mary thus learns that the Most High has ever borne a Son in his bosom, and that this Son has now chosen her bosom as dwelling-place.
— Hans Urs Von Balthasar
God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every moment of becoming.
— Hans Urs Von Balthasar
The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
— Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Man is the creature with a mystery in his heart that is bigger than himself.
— Hans Urs Von Balthasar
I've never made plans for more than a day ahead.
— Mary MacLane
There is much in Christianity which can be subjected to exact analysis. But the ultimate things are shrouded in the silent mysteries of God.
— Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.
— Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Marry me,' he said. [ ... ]
'No,' she said. 'It scares me.' [ ... ]
'What aspect of it scares you?'
'The loneliness. — Josephine Humphreys
'No,' she said. 'It scares me.' [ ... ]
'What aspect of it scares you?'
'The loneliness. — Josephine Humphreys
The Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs.
— Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Had she stabbed me with a knife, she could not have hurt me more.
— Alexandre Dumas-fils
The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
— Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Every experience of beauty points to [eternity].
— Hans Urs Von Balthasar
A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power.
— Hans Urs Von Balthasar
There will never be beings unloved by God, since God is absolute love.
— Hans Urs Von Balthasar
My experience as a fiction writer tells me that the deeper I look into myself, the more universal is the experience I find there.
— Marion Dane Bauer
Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character.
— Hans Urs Von Balthasar
God is not, in the first place, 'absolute power', but 'absolute love',
— Hans Urs Von Balthasar
Faith's table is always laid, whether the invited guest sits down or stays away with a thousand excuses and pretexts.
— Hans Urs Von Balthasar
If you start thinking about retirement in six months' time, you're already there.
— Brian O'Driscoll
Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
— Hans Urs Von Balthasar