Credo Quotes

“Almightiness consists much less in that which human beings imagine it to be, namely, changing things in accordance with one’s own will—Jesus proved, through his miracles, that he could do that, too—than in exerting an influence on the freedom of human hearts without overpowering them. Enticing forth from them, through the mysterious power of grace, their free assent to the truly good.”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Credo

“Pour into our hearts the sentiment of Your love,” become Yourself a flowing current for us, for our own current does not carry us all the way to You. Be rainfall upon our parchedness, be a river through our landscape, that it might find in You a defining middle and a cause of its increasing and bearing fruit. And should Your water bring forth blossoms and fruit in us, then let us not regard these as our own sproutings and produce, for they stem from You; and let us lay them up in advance”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Credo

“God creates only one world. Human beings have spoilt the Creator’s work, the Son has redeemed the old creation through his Cross, the Spirit has sanctified it. This one world will be enough for God in eternity, and for us, whom he has created, redeemed, and sanctified, this God will be enough.”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Credo

“For us humans, that will mean that our obedience, which we owe to our Creator and Lord and to all his direct and indirect commands, can be, in Jesus Christ, and even must be, an expression of our love; so that any love of God or other human beings which excludes obedience, or wishes to get beyond it, does not at all deserve the name love.”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Credo

“He is such all the more in that through this—concretely, through his Cross—he can demonstrate his infinite gratitude to the Father. And in doing precisely that, he will be allowed to prove to the creatures that God, despite all appearances, is the love that goes all the way “to the end” (Jn 13:1) of its possibilities.”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Credo