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.
More Quotes by Hans Urs von Balthasar
The inner reality of love can be recognized only by love.
Even if a unity of faith is not possible, a unity of love is.
Whoever removes the Cross and its interpretation by the New Testament from the center, in order to replace it, for example, with the social commitment of Jesus to the oppressed as a new center, no longer stands in continuity with the apostolic faith.
The One, the Good, the True, and the Beautiful, these are what we call the transcendental attributes of Being, because they surpass all the limits of essences and are coextensive with Being.
Thus it is necessary to commence from an inescapable duality: the finite is not the infinite.
The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.