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 se…

- 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 a…

- Karl Rahner

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

- Karl Rahner

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 so…

- Karl Rahner

Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.

- Karl Rahner

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 Him who is ab…

- Karl Rahner

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

- 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)…

- Karl Rahner

Not everybody, however, has a genuine sense of humor. That calls for an altruistic detachment from oneself and a mysterious sympathy with others whic…

- Karl Rahner