Hans Urs von Balthasar Quotes

God is best known in not knowing him.

We see that it is not the task of Christianity to provide easy answers to every question, but to make us progressively aware of a mystery. God is not so much the object of our knowledge as the cause of our wonder.

I love the Bible.

Mystery is a birthright of theology and faith, but you often do find religious people grasping for answers that shut things down and narrow what is possible.

Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.

People think of science as rolling back the mystery of God. I look at science as slowly creeping toward the mystery of God.

I believe in God. It's a big part of my life. You can bring it up and talk about it without being 'Christian Rocker.'

I grew up Baptist and still go to church. I myself have explored other religions, because I want to know what it is that makes other people tick. I find we're all talking about the same thing, really - it's all God.

I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God.

The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

In speaking of Jesus, I must speak about Christianity because I do not think it possible or profitable to divide the two.

Through history, people look for something spiritual. The greatest scientists in the world were men of religion and faith, too.

I don't believe Jesus was the son of God, although I'm inclined to think he might have been a great prophet.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

I believe in mystery and multiplicity. To religious believers this may sound almost pagan. But I don't think so.

I'm interested in the hope we invest in science, and the disappointment we can feel when science flattens, or 'explains,' the larger mysteries of religion.

It was tremendously exciting to discover that science was not destroying religion, as people popularly believe, but that it could cast light on theism and Christianity.

My main source for faith-based stuff is mostly the Bible, and a childhood with a much, much higher-than-median exposure to theological thought.

If God is the mystery of the universe, these mysteries, we're tackling these mysteries one by one. If you're going to stay religious at the end of the conversation, God has to mean more to you than just where science has yet to tread.

The universe is incredibly wondrous, incredibly beautiful, and it fills me with a sense that there is some underlying explanation that we have yet to fully understand. If someone wants to place the word 'God' on those collections of words, it's OK with me.

Let me say that I consider myself a deep believer in the reality of God. I might define God quite differently from the way some people in the Christian faith would do so, but I do not doubt the reality of that experience.

Well, I believe in God. I taught Sunday school.

A mystery, in Christian theology, is what God knows and man cannot, and must instead believe.

While a case can be made for intelligent design, I can't figure out why some Christians are so thrilled about that possibility. First of all, it doesn't prove there's a God. If anything, intelligent design lends support to some form of pantheism that defines God as immanent within nature.

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.