Our situation today shows that beauty demands for itself at least as much courage and decision as do truth and goodness, and she will not allow herself to be separated and banned from her two sisters without taking them along with herself in an act of mysterious vengeance.
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.