Karl Rahner Quotes
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Grace can and does have a history.
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Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.
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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 finds the courage…
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The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
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Not everybody, however, has a genuine sense of humor. That calls for an altruistic detachment from oneself and a mysterious sympathy with others which is…
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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 dying. Their silence…
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Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.
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The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism.
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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. How true it…
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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, and sing those…
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Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.
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What Christ gives us is quite explicit if his own words are interpreted according to their Aramaic meaning. The expression 'This is my Body' means…
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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 never know when…
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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 a basic condition…
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For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not clearly have present…
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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.
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When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.
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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!
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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 what an unbelieving…
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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 a new air…
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