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Karl Rahner quotes

Deutsch Theologian March 5, 1904 – March 30, 1984

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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 lovely songs of hope and promise. Karl Rahner
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 of freedom and forget my own petty self. In love my whole being streams forth out of the rigid confines of narrowness and anxious self-assertion, which make me a prisoner of my own poverty emptiness. In love all the powers of my soul flow out toward you, wanting never more to return, but to lose themselves completely in you, since by your love you are the inmost center of my... Karl Rahner
Karl Rahner quote: "When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying."
When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying. Karl Rahner
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 which is always appropriate to a life that is lived aright. Karl Rahner
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 lightening will strike us out of the blue. It may be when we least expect to be asked whether we have the absolute faith and trust to say yes Karl Rahner
Karl Rahner quote: "Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause..."
Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray! Karl Rahner
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 to it at the time)...always providing that one has the courage to ask questions, to be dissatisfied, to think with the mind and heart one ACTUALLY has, and not with the mind and heart one is SUPPOSED TO have. Karl Rahner
Karl Rahner quote: "Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created..."
Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God. Karl Rahner
Karl Rahner quote: "In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has..."
In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all. Karl Rahner
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 is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom. Karl Rahner
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 world finds unbelievable. Karl Rahner
Karl Rahner quote: "The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not..."
The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all. Karl Rahner
Karl Rahner quote: "Grace can and does have a history."
Grace can and does have a history. Karl Rahner
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 this is myself. Karl Rahner

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