How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should.… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body'… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing and unimpeachable… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
In the midst of our lives, of our freedom and our struggles, we have to make a radical, absolute decision. And we never know… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
The dead are silent because they live, just as we chatter so loudly to try to make ourselves forget that we are dying. Their… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
Emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God's, that God's silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without words, by… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness. — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
Love alone allows man to forget himself... it alone can still redeem even the darkest hours of the past since it alone finds the… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray! — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
“For a Catholic understanding of the faith there is no reason why the basic concern of Evangelical Christianity as it comes to expression in… — Karl Rahner Copy Share Image
