Quotes by Hans Urs von Balthasar, Unless You Become Like This Child

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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 w — Hans Urs von Balthasar, 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 o — Hans Urs von Balthasar, Unless You Become Like This Child
God defines himself as "I am who I am", which also means: My being is such that I shall always be present in every momen — Hans Urs von Balthasar, Unless You Become Like This Child
What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood — Hans Urs von Balthasar, Unless You Become Like This Child
In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists--within his inseparable unity--the distinction be — Hans Urs von Balthasar, Unless You Become Like This Child
Her (Mary's) Son first had to be the Child of the Father in order then to become man and be capable of taking up on his — Hans Urs von Balthasar, Unless You Become Like This Child
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 dwe — Hans Urs von Balthasar, Unless You Become Like This Child
It would be unjust toward children to introduce them to Christian teaching and existence only as little pagans and catec — Hans Urs von Balthasar, Unless You Become Like This Child
It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around — Hans Urs von Balthasar, Unless You Become Like This Child
Only the Christian religion, which in its essence is communicated by the eternal child of God, keeps alive in its believ — Hans Urs von Balthasar, Unless You Become Like This Child