“It is, finally, a word is untimely in three different senses, and bearing it as one’s treasure will not win one anyone’s favours one rather risks finding oneself outside everyone’s camp... Beauty is the word that shall be our first.Hans Urs von Balthasar
“But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.Hans Urs von Balthasar
“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
“Beauty is the disinterested one, without which the ancient world refused to understand itself, a word which both imperceptibly and yet unmistakably has bid farewell to our new world, a world of interests, leaving it to its own avarice and sadness.Hans Urs von Balthasar