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Karl Rahner

(1904–1984) Latin Catholic Priest

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Karl Rahner was a Latin Catholic priest, best known for Schriften zur Theologie.

Quick Facts About Karl Rahner

Born: March 5, 1904
Died: March 30, 1984
Profession: Latin Catholic Priest
Notable works: Schriften zur Theologie

About Karl Rahner

Karl Rahner was a German Jesuit priest and theologian who, alongside Henri de Lubac, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Yves Congar, is considered to be one of the most influential Catholic theologians of the 20th-century. He was the brother of Hugo Rahner, also a Jesuit scholar.

Biography source: Wikipedia

Quotes by Karl Rahner

What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is…

Body

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Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.

Important

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The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is…

Action

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Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting,…

Advent

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But there is yet another form of this hidden heresy, and, paradoxically, it can affect those who are proudest of their long-standing…

Form

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In the midst of our lives, of our freedom and our struggles, we have to make a radical, absolute decision. And we…

Blue

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The dead are silent because they live, just as we chatter so loudly to try to make ourselves forget that we are…

Assurance

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Emptiness is only a disguise for an intimacy of God's, that God's silence, the eerie stillness, is filled by the Word without…

Disguise

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Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.

Authenticity

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Love alone allows man to forget himself... it alone can still redeem even the darkest hours of the past since it alone…

Alone in love

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Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

Causes

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“For a Catholic understanding of the faith there is no reason why the basic concern of Evangelical Christianity as it comes to…

Catholicism

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Only in love can I find you, my God. In love the gates of my soul spring open, allowing me to breathe…

Air

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Childhood is not a state which only applies to the first phase of our lives in the biological sense. Rather it is…

Childhood

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In the post-Christian world, all Christians will be mystics.

Christian

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Grace can and does have a history.

Grace

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The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

Christian

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How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should.…

Character

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Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.

Active

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In the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable we eventually learn that here, in this life, all symphonies remain unfinished.

Life

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“The Word is, by definition, immanent in the divinity and active in the world, and as such the Father's revelation. A revelation…

Parenting

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When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

And love

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The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism.

Atheism

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In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.

Mystic

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“If we have been given the vocation and grace to die with Christ then the everyday and banal occurrence which we call…

Death

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