Hans Urs von Balthasar Quotes

When religion has said its last word, there is little that we need other than God Himself. The evil habit of seeking God-and effectively prevents us from finding God in full revelation. In the and lies our great woe. If we omit the and we shall soon find God, and in Him we shall find that for which we have all our lives been secretly longing.

If you have to be reasoned into Christianity, some wise fellow can reason you out of it! If you come to Christ by a flash of the Holy Spirit so that by intuition you know that you are God's child, you know it by the text but you also know it by the inner light, the inner illumination of the Spirit, and no one can ever reason you out of it.

Having embraced Islam, I felt as if I were born again. I found in Islam the answers to those queries which I had failed to find in Christianity.

I am athirst for God, the living God.

The only thing to seek in contemplative prayer is God; and we seek Him successfully when we realize that we cannot find Him unless He shows Himself to us, and yet at the same time that He would not have inspired us to seek Him unless we had already found Him.

The key to Christian living is a thirst and hunger for God. And one of the main reasons people do not understand or experience the sovereignty of grace and the way it works through the awakening of sovereign joy is that their hunger and thirst for God is so small.

With all your science can you tell me how it is, and when it is, that light comes into the soul?

God reveals Himself, unfailingly, to the solitary, thoughtful seeker

Faith is like a bright ray of sun light. It enables us to see God in all things as well as all things in God.

I am convinced that when a man sincerely searches for God with all his heart, God will reveal Himself in some way.

Religion is not an end in itself. One's union with God is the ultimate goal.

Doesn't every encounter with God only cause us to thirst for Him more?

Theirs is an endless road, a hopeless maze, who seek for goods before they seek for God.

O truth divine! enlightened by thy ray, I grope and guess no more, but see my way.

The grace of God has no charms for men till the Holy Spirit gives them a taste for it.

He opened a window in my heart, and the light of the world shined in.

Finally, I learned that we shouldn’t seek answers as much as we should seek God.

The more of God's Word you know and love, the more of God's Spirit you will experience.

I read the New Testament, specifically the gospels and I was struck at their divinity, feeling that humans could not have figured this out on their own. We're just not bright enough.

Deep in our Hearts, the Light of Heaven is shining.

Bestow upon me, O Lord my God, understanding to know thee, diligence to seek thee, wisdom to find thee, and a faithfulness that may finally embrace thee.

There is no loftier mission than to approach the Divinity nearer than other men, and to disseminate the divine rays among mankind.

Everything made so much sense. This is the beauty of the Qur'an; it asks you to reflect and reason....When I read the Qur'an further, it talked about prayer, kindness and charity. I was not a Muslim yet, but I felt the o­nly answer for me was the Qur'an and God had sent it to me.

God's goal is not to get what you want; it is to get you what you need.

The temple endowment was given by revelation. Thus, it is best understood by revelation, prayerfully sought with a sincere heart.