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 BalthasarWonder โ the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge โ 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.
Hans Urs von BalthasarThe Holy Spirit knows what a particular age's most pressing need is far better than men with their programs.
Hans Urs von BalthasarGod 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