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.
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
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
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
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…
Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness. - Karl Rahner
Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.
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
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…
Knowing God is more important than knowing about God. - Karl Rahner
Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.
In the post-Christian world, all Christians will be mystics. - Karl Rahner
In the post-Christian world, all Christians will be mystics.
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
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…
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 str… - 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 str…
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 … - Karl Rahner
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 …
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