Hans Urs von Balthasar Quotes About Fathers

Quotes about: Fathers

• What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Father, Self, Giving

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1991). “Unless You Become Like this Child”, p.44, Ignatius Press

• In Christ, for the first time, we see that in God himself there exists--within his inseparable unity--the distinction between the Father who gives and the Gift which is given (the Son), but only in the unity of the Holy Spirit.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Father, Son, Giving

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1991). “Unless You Become Like this Child”, p.17, Ignatius Press

• 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 shoulders the burden of a guilty world.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Children, Father, Son

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1991). “Unless You Become Like this Child”, p.74, Ignatius Press

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