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1. "Love alone is credible." ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
2. "It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as little pagans and catechumens, in order to leave it up to them to choose the Faith on their own responsibility at a point in time difficult to determine." ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
3. "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
4. "In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists--within his inseparable unity--the distinction between the Father who gives and the Gift which is given (the Son), but only in the unity of the Holy Spirit." ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
5. "What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other." ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
6. "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
7. "Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is." ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
8. "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." ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
9. "If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel." ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
10. "The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love." ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
11. "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
12. "Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith." ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
13. "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
14. "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." ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
15. "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." ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
16. "The flight away from self to God is not a "forgetting self" in the sense that man thereby loses himself. Rather, in the experience of the Spirit there is bestowed on man the deepest possible experience of himself: for the Holy Spirit is a Spirit of revelation which illuminates the human spirit, in which it is immanent, by telling man what he is." ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
17. "To be a child means to owe one's existence to another, and even in our adult life we never quite reach the point where we no longer have to give thanks for being the person we are." ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
18. "Wonder—the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge—promises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the stage in which the subject, overwhelmed by the object, has, as it were, fused into a single point or into nothing… like the movement of hope and love toward God, which is genuine and selfless only where it has assumed the attitude of pure worship of God for his own sake." ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
19. "What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God." ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
20. "The saint is the apology for the Christian religion. He is holy, however, because he allows Christ to live in him and it is in Christ that he "glories"." ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
21. "The full Christian experience, however, is not an individual experience which may be isolated from all else; it is, unconditionally, an experience within the context of the Church. It is 'a personal history which is imbedded in the greater history of the Church - a spiritual becoming which is incarnate and is lived within the Church's own process of becoming. It is the effort to develop what has been given, to discover what is hidden, the effort to attain to oneself by attaining, though the Church and within her, to the mystery of Christ, the Saviour'." ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
22. "For all his gentleness and humility unto death on the Cross, God does not relinquish his attribute of being judge and consuming fire. Nothing is more majestic than his Passion; even his anxiety is sublime. And God never denies his attributes to those who are his light in the world. They shine like stars in the cosmos, and even their anxiety, if God allows it, bears the marks of their divine destiny." ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
23. "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
24. "Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance." ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
25. "Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man." ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
26. "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
27. "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
28. "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." ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
29. "The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity." ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
30. "Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite." ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
31. "St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit." ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
32. "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." ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
33. "The first attempt at a response: there must have been a fall, a decline, and the road to salvation can only be the return of the sensible finite into the intelligible infinite." ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
34. "The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes." ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
35. "Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believers the lifelong awareness of their being children, and therefore of having to ask and give thanks for things." ~ Hans Urs Von Balthasar
36. "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

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