Hans Urs von Balthasar Quotes About Resurrection

Quotes about: Resurrection

• If one does away with the fact of the Resurrection, one also does away with the Cross, for both stand and fall together, and one would then have to find a new center for the whole message of the gospel.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Easter, Fall, Together

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1985). “A Short Primer for Unsettled Laymen”, p.41, Ignatius Press

• Without a doubt, at the center of the New Testament there stands the Cross, which receives its interpretation from the Resurrection.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Doubt, Resurrection, Crosses

• Hell is to be contemplated strictly as a matter which concerns me alone. As part of the spiritual life it belongs behind the 'closed door' of my own room. From the standpoint of living faith, I cannot fundamentally believe in anyone's damnation but my own; as far as my neighbor is concerned, the light of resurrection can never be so obscured that I would be allowed or obliged to stop hoping for him.

  Hans Urs von Balthasar

  Spiritual, Believe, Doors

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1986). “Prayer”, p.266, Ignatius Press

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