Hans Urs Von Balthasar citáty

„Pokora není žádná ctnost, nýbrž poznání, že nám veškerá ctnost schází.“

—  Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Originál: (de) Demut ist keine Tugend, sondern die Einsicht, dass uns jegliche Tugend fehlt.

„V manželství bývá nejednou vítězem ten, kdo se jím nezdá.“

—  Hans Urs Von Balthasar

„Bůh je věčně mladý a potřebuje lidi, kteří jeho temperament vyzařují.“

—  Hans Urs Von Balthasar

„Charisms are not distributed at random but are dispensed by God to supply what is needful and lacking in his Church at each historical moment. If they are from God, they usually do not flow with the latest fashionable trend but much more likely contain an antidote and remedy for the perils of the time.“

—  Hans Urs Von Balthasar

First Glance at Adrienne von Speyr (1968)

„What you are is God's gift to you, what you become is your gift to God.“

—  Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Zdroj: Prayer

„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

Zdroj: Unless You Become Like This Child

„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

Zdroj: 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

Zdroj: Unless You Become Like This Child

„Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.“

—  Hans Urs Von Balthasar

„In Maximus all the streams of the Greek patristic tradition flow together in synthesis. At the same time, with real originality, there is much from within that tradition that he takes to a higher level. But the course of this saint's life impressed me even more than his teaching. Once again, like Athanasius, one man was able to defend orthodox Christology against a whole empire. A Byzantine joins forces with Pope St. Martin I in Rome and finally suffers martyrdom for the true faith. This is the summit of that unity of doctrine and life which marks the whole patristic age; speculation and mysticism of the greatest subtlety are wedded to a soberly and consciously grasped martyrdom. In St. Maximus we can see in the Catholica what Kierkegaard found within the individual.“

—  Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Our Task: A Report and a Plan (1984)

„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)

„What deserves to be called mysticism—not in the vague sense of the history and philosophy of religion, but rather in the Catholic-ecclesial sense—occurs when God's Word is heard, not only with exegetical and theological understanding, but with the whole heart, the whole being, when one is steadfast before the self-disclosure of the heart of God despite fire and night.“

—  Hans Urs Von Balthasar

First Glance at Adrienne von Speyr (1968)

„Adrienne von Speyr has brought mysticism back from the clandestine existence into which, increasingly misunderstood, indeed scorned, it had been exiled and silenced by official theology and proclamation and has returned it to the center of salvation history.“

—  Hans Urs Von Balthasar

First Glance at Adrienne von Speyr (1968)

„Christ's Passion, viewed from within, is of a diversity that the biblical texts and images leave hidden; but numerous mystics through the centuries have been allowed to experience a great deal of it in ever-varying aspects—if only by drops, as it were, compared with the Son of God.“

—  Hans Urs Von Balthasar

First Glance at Adrienne von Speyr (1968)

„The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.“

—  Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Love Alone Is Credible (1963)

„There were many mystical phenomena in Adrienne's life—stigmata, transferences, the radiating of light, levitation, speaking with tongues, and other things of that kind, but they all occurred in a totally unemphatic way. They were mere accompaniments to show forth the heart of the matter: what was to be passed on to the Church, invisibly through prayer and strenuous penance, visibly through the dictated works. The criterion of her mysticism's authenticity lies primarily, if not exclusively, in the quality of what she did and what she had and has to say.“

—  Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Our Task: A Report and a Plan (1984)

„Only by presupposing God's prior and inconceivable forgiveness can the limitations of human good will be transcended, and only thus can the danger of human pride be avoided.“

—  Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Love Alone Is Credible (1963)

„In his Gospel, St. John, through long and deep contemplation, acknowledges Jesus to be the Logos of God. In his epistles he points entirely away from himself toward Christ. Finally, in the Apocalypse, in the vision of the Lamb of God, Old and New Testaments are united, and the whole drama of salvation is summed up.“

—  Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Hans Urs von Balthasar, Our Task https://books.google.it/books?id=yEjT5yVci2gC&pg=PT0, trans. John Saward, Ignatius Press, 1994.
Our Task: A Report and a Plan (1984)

„The exalted moment of love is always full of promise: it is not closed in on itself, but open; we see its natural fruitfulness revealed in the child, even if its spiritual fruitfulness remains hidden.“

—  Hans Urs Von Balthasar

Love Alone Is Credible (1963)