Hans Urs von Balthasar Quotes About Church

Quotes about: Church

• 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

  Order, Baptism, Church

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1991). “Unless You Become Like this Child”, p.42, Ignatius Press

• We are not only interested in those aspects of the mystery of the Roman Catholic Church which set her apart from the other Christian communities, but also to show how often they are central beliefs by describing what is specifically Catholic in such a way that the partner in dialogue can see, even from his own standpoint, the inner consistency.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Christian, Community, Catholic

• One can understand nothing of Christ without the mystery of the Trinity, nothing of the Church without faith in the divinity and humanity of Christ, nothing of the sacraments without the bridal mystery between Christian life without Christian faith. Thus, the present sermons revolve around the same center--the inexhaustible mystery of the one indivisible faith.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Christian, Humanity, Church

• No one should think he can quickly dispose of questions posed here offhandedly. It was precisely because writers were in the habit during the time of the Reformation of theologizing with a hammer that the split in the Church became irreparable. And to work at overcoming this split means much effort. Only the patient need apply.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Mean, Thinking, Effort

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