“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
“The Church does not dispense the sacrament of baptism in order to acquire for herself an increase in membership but in order to consecrate a human being to God and to communicate to that person the divine gift of birth from God.”Hans Urs Von Balthasar Source: Unless You Become Like This Child
“The Mystical Body of Christ does not rest on abstract principles but on concrete persons who have missions, or on missions which are personal.”Hans Urs Von Balthasar Our Task: A Report and a Plan (1984)