“The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were c...” — Hans Urs von Balthasar Quote

“The Passion narratives are the first pieces of the Gospels that were composed as a unity.”

“The work with which we embark on this first volume of a series of theological studies is a work with which the philosophical person does not begin, but rather concludes.”

“What the Father gives is the capacity to be a self, freedom, and thus autonomy, but an autonomy which can be understood only as a surrender of self to the other.”

“At the head of these new discoveries and insights comes the establishment of the facts that electricity is composed of discrete particles of equal size, or quanta, and that light is an electromagnetic wave motion.”

“People would read all kinds of reaction into it, but Tracy told me himself that half the time he was just standing very still, trying to look sober and composed. That takes nothing away from him. The fact he got away with it was a tribute to his talent.”

“I sing in languages that I speak. So when I'm singing a Schubert song, I know precisely what every word means and, you know, when it was composed and who was the poet and all of that and whether Strauss or Wagner or French Belioz, Duparc or Debussy or whatever.”