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Hans Urs Von Balthasar Inspirational Quotes (35)

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The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.
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Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
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Consequently, Christian meditation is entirely trinitarian and at the same time entirely human. In order to find God, no one need reject being human personally or socially, but in order to find God all must see the world and themselves in the Holy Spirit as they are in God's sight.
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It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one's treasure will not win one anyone's favours one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone's camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.
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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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A truth that is merely handed on, without being thought anew from its very foundations, has lost its vital power.
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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.
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The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity.
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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.
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The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
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The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.
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