Dare We Hope That All Men Be Saved? Quotes

“There will never be beings unloved by God, since God is absolute love.”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Dare We Hope That All Men Be Saved?

“Gregory of Nyssa, in contrast, tries to advance philosophical and theological arguments to prove that the pains of hell cannot be co-eternal with God. His main argument is based on the essential superiority of good over evil; for evil, in its essence, can never be absolute and unlimited. The sinner inevitably reaches a limit when all his evil is done and he cannot go farther, just as the night, after having reached its peak, turns toward the day.18 This reasoning corresponds to the example of a physician who allows a boil to mature until it can be lanced. Thus the Incarnation, too, occurred only when evil had reached its climax.19 Gregory’s position has never been condemned.”
― Hans Urs von Balthasar, Dare We Hope That All Men be Saved?: With a Short Discourse on Hell