Hans Urs von Balthasar Jesus christ Quotes


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 Jesus christ 86
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 Jesus christ 75
In Christ for the first time we see that in God himself there existswithin his inseparable unitythe 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 Jesus christ 74
Her Marys 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 Jesus christ 55
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 dwellingplace. Hans Urs von Balthasar Jesus christ 47

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