The dead are silent because they live, just as we chatter so loudly to try to make ourselves forget that we are dying. Their silence is really their call to me, the assurance of their immortal love for me. — 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
