Author: Hans Urs von Balthasar

Quotes

If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.

If God wishes to reveal the love that he harbors for the world, this love has to be something that the world can recognize, in spite of, or in fact in, its being wholly other.

- Hans Urs von Balthasar

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

- Hans Urs von Balthasar

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

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

- Hans Urs von Balthasar

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

- Hans Urs von Balthasar

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.

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.

- Hans Urs von Balthasar

The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

- Hans Urs von Balthasar

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