Hans Urs von Balthasar Quotes

Not longer loved or fostered by religion, beauty is lifted from its face as a mask, and its absence exposes features on that face which threaten to become incomprehensible to man.

Hans Urs von Balthasar

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: theologian
  • Nationality: swiss
  • Birth: August 12, 1905 - June 26, 1988

Topics

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I like words. I like the way they clash around together and bang up against each other, especially in songs.

Jimmy Webb

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I know in war good people can feel obliged for good reasons to do things they would normally object to and recoil from.

John McCain

GoodWarPeopleGood PeopleFeel

Lives, like money, are spent. What are you buying with yours?

Roy H. Williams

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The United States of America - once great, grand and free - is on the path to becoming just another country.

Monica Crowley

PathGreatFreeAmericaCountry

A writer is always, always searching, even against her will, against all her better instincts, for the thread of a story. Everything is fodder. Everything is fuel. You can feel it coming on like the tingling of a sore throat. The brain never stops struggling to reshape every experience and feeling into a coherent narrative.

Miriam Toews

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I work every day, and every year I spend seven months away from my family. I miss my kids' birthdays, and those are times I will never be able to go back on and share with them. That kills me.

Mo Farah

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While we are postponing, life speeds by.

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

LifeSpeedsWhile

Young bands are so angry. There are young bands that are so incredibly successful, getting incredible reviews, and they are totally angry.

Lou Barlow

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The King of Spain displayed his esteem for me in a manner that I confess flattered me pleasantly when, after the death of Don Luis de Haro, he stated publicly in front of all the foreign ambassadors that he wanted to follow my example in not having a prime minister any longer.

Louis XIV

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With our blogs and tweets, digital cameras, and unlimited-gigabyte e-mail archives, participation in the online culture now means creating a trail of always present, ever searchable, unforgetting external memories that only grows as one ages.

Joshua Foer

MemoriesCulturePresentTrailNow

For centuries, pates have been one of the greatest vehicles for wild game. But making a pate, which is nothing more than a meatloaf, has tended to be a laborious task, with ingredient lists as long as a shotgun barrel.

Jonathan Miles

GameLongNothingMoreWildTask

I went into Guitar Center, and David Koresh and Steven Schneider were looking at a drum set, and they asked me to play it. They handed me their card, which said, 'Messiah Productions.' All this religious scripture was written on the back. The last thing I wanted was to join any kind of Christian band.

David Thibodeau

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