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• The Christian response is contained in these two fundamental dogmas: that of the Trinity and that of the Incarnation. In the trinitarian dogma God is one, good, true, and beautiful because he is essentially Love, and Love supposes the one, the other, and their unity.

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  Beautiful, Christian, Two

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1993). “My Work: In Retrospect”, p.57, Ignatius Press

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• Wonder — the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge — promises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the stage in which the subject, overwhelmed by the object, has, as it were, fused into a single point or into nothing.

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  Love, Attitude, Promise

  "The Christian and Anxiety".

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• There is a moment when the interior light of the "eyes of faith" becomes one with the exterior light that shines from Christ, and this occurs because man's thirst, as he strives and seeks after God, is quenched as he finds repose in the revealed form of the Son.

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  Eye, Son, Men

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1982). “Glory of the Lord VOL 1: Seeing The Form”, p.190, A&C Black

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• The saints are never the kind of killjoy spinster aunts who go in for faultfinding and lack all sense of humor.

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  Aunt, Saint, Sense Of Humor

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (2007). “The Office of Peter and the Structure of the Church, 2nd Edition”, p.184, Ignatius Press

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• Everything in Irenaeus is bathed in a warm and radiant joy, a wise and majestic gentleness. His words of struggle are hard as iron and crystal clear, ... so penetrating that they cannot fail to enlighten the unbiased observer.

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  Wise, Struggle, Iron

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• 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.

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  Order, Baptism, Church

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

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• 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.

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  Easter, Fall, Together

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

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• The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.

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  Reality, Reality Of Love

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (2004). “Love Alone is Credible”, p.60, Ignatius Press

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• Christian obedience, by its very nature, has a heroic character.

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  Christian, Character, Catholic

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1996). “Bernanos: An Ecclesial Existence”, p.104, Ignatius Press

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• Love alone is credible.

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  Alone In Love, Credible

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• 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.

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  Father, Self, Giving

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

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• The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.

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  Passion, Unity, Pieces

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• Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

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  Men, Faces, Absence

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1982). “Glory of the Lord VOL 1: Seeing The Form”, p.18, A&C Black

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

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  Doubt, Resurrection, Crosses

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• 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.

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  Father, Son, Giving

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

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• 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.

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  Mean, Thinking, Effort

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• Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.

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  Infinite, Duality, Finite

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1993). “My Work: In Retrospect”, p.99, Ignatius Press

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• 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.

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  Farewell, Sadness, Leaving

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1982). “Glory of the Lord VOL 1: Seeing The Form”, p.18, A&C Black

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• 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.

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  Winning, Finding The One, Risk

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• 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.

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  Issues, Life And Death, God Life

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1985). “A Short Primer for Unsettled Laymen”, p.40, Ignatius Press

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• St. Paul would say to the philosophers that God created man so that he would seek the Divine, try to attain the Divine. That is why all pre-Christian philosophy is theological at its summit.

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  Christian, Philosophy, Men

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1993). “My Work: In Retrospect”, p.99, Ignatius Press

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• Consequently, Christian meditation is entirely trinitarian and at the same time entirely human. In order to find God, no one need reject being human personally or socially, but in order to find God all must see the world and themselves in the Holy Spirit as they are in God's sight.

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  Christian, Sight, Order

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1989). “Christian Meditation”, p.5, Ignatius Press

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• We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

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  Believe, Order, Appearance

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (1982). “Glory of the Lord VOL 1: Seeing The Form”, p.18, A&C Black

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• 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.

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  Christian, Community, Catholic

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• Prior to an individual's encounter with the love of God at a particular time in history, however, there has to be another, more fundamental and archetypal encounter, which belongs to the conditions of possibility of the appearance of divine love to man.

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  Men, Encounters, God Love

  Hans Urs von Balthasar (2004). “Love Alone is Credible”, p.61, Ignatius Press

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