The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.
Hans Urs von BalthasarThus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.
Hans Urs von BalthasarThere is a moment when the interior light of the "eyes of faith" becomes one with the exterior light that shines from Christ, and this occurs because man's thirst, as he strives and seeks after God, is quenched as he finds repose in the revealed form of the Son.
Hans Urs von BalthasarThe saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.
Hans Urs von Balthasar