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 call to me, the assurance of their immortal love for me.
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
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…
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.
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…
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…
In the post-Christian world, all Christians will be mystics. - Karl Rahner
In the post-Christian world, all Christians will be mystics.
Knowing God is more important than knowing about God. - Karl Rahner
Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.
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
Not everybody, however, has a genuine sense of humor. That calls for an altruistic detachment from oneself and a mysterious sympathy with others whic…
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