Hans Urs Von Balthasar: Evening

Hans Urs Von Balthasar was Swedish Catholic theologian. Explore interesting quotes on evening.
Hans Urs Von Balthasar: 34   quotes 10   likes

“The exalted moment of love is always full of promise: it is not closed in on itself, but open; we see its natural fruitfulness revealed in the child, even if its spiritual fruitfulness remains hidden.”

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Love Alone Is Credible (1963)

Love , Nature

“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

Source: Unless You Become Like This Child

Life , Personality

“In Maximus all the streams of the Greek patristic tradition flow together in synthesis. At the same time, with real originality, there is much from within that tradition that he takes to a higher level. But the course of this saint's life impressed me even more than his teaching. Once again, like Athanasius, one man was able to defend orthodox Christology against a whole empire. A Byzantine joins forces with Pope St. Martin I in Rome and finally suffers martyrdom for the true faith. This is the summit of that unity of doctrine and life which marks the whole patristic age; speculation and mysticism of the greatest subtlety are wedded to a soberly and consciously grasped martyrdom. In St. Maximus we can see in the Catholica what Kierkegaard found within the individual.”

Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Our Task: A Report and a Plan (1984)

Life , Age , Faith , Wedding