Hans Urs von Balthasar Quotes

The cross is the centre of all this in every respect.

Leave Jesus on the cross. He's very happy there!

Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life.

I want to tell people about the meaning of the cross.

The Resurrection is at the core of our beliefs as Christians. Without it, our faith is meaningless.

By its birth, and for all time, Christianity is pledged to the Cross and dominated by the sign of the Cross. It cannot remain its own self except by identifying itself ever more intensely with the essence of the Cross.

No doctrine is more excellent, or necessary to be preached and studied, than Jesus Christ, and him crucified.

Take away the cross of Christ, and the Bible is a dark book.

If you take away the cross as an atoning act, you take away Christianity.

At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.

Few people seem to realize that the resurrection of Jesus is the cornerstone to a worldview that provides the perspective to all of life.

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

The most casual reader of the New Testament can scarcely fail to see the commanding position the resurrection of Christ holds in Christianity. It is the creator of its new and brighter hopes, of its richer and stronger faith, of its deeper and more exalted experience.

I believe in the crucifixion of Jesus Christ.

Christ was liberated on the cross through spiritual centers located where the nails are said to have been driven, and elsewhere.

The word 'Christianity' is already a misunderstanding - in reality there has been only one Christian, and he died on the Cross.

If Jesus Christ was who He claimed to be, and He did die on a cross at a point of time in history, then, for all history past and all history future it is relevant because that is the very focal point for forgiveness and redemption.

I want to take my life and the time I have on this earth to try to tell others about Jesus, that Jesus Christ is God's son who took our sins to the Cross and shed His blood for our sins.

I'm not ashamed of the Gospel.

There are so many things we have to overcome in this life with Jesus, His work on the cross. He's paid the ultimate price for us, so I'm proud to be a child of God.

It's all about Jesus.

It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it.

There is no way of salvation except through the cross of Christ.

Without the resurrection, the cross is meaningless.

It is the resurrection that makes Good Friday good.