When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.
Karl RahnerRead
Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote emphasizes the importance of understanding prayer and seeking guidance from God in how to pray effectively.
Karl Rahner suggests that deep contemplation on prayer's essence and significance can lead one to express a fundamental request to God for wisdom in the act of praying. This highlights the belief that prayer is not just a ritual but a profound communication with the divine, filled with the desire for growth in spiritual practice.
Themes
PrayerSpiritualityGuidanceCommunicationFaith
In practice
Example use cases
In a sermon about the importance of prayer in our lives.
More from Karl Rahner
All quotes βKnowing God is more important than knowing about God.
Karl RahnerRead
The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
Karl RahnerRead
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 felt even before they open their mouths. Only the person who has also a gift for affection can have a true sense of humor. A good laugh is a sign of love; it may be said to give us a glimpse of, or a first lesson in, the love that God bears for every one of us.
Karl RahnerRead
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 to believe in the mercy of the holy God.
Karl RahnerRead
Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.
Karl RahnerRead
Similar quotes
[...]there is no injustice in God. The injustice lies in Christians who possess the gospel and refuse to give their lives to making it known among those who haven't heard.
David PlattRead
The gospel alone is sufficient to rule the lives of Christians everywhere - any additional rules made to govern men's conduct added nothing to the perfection already found in the Gospel of Jesus Christ.
John WycliffeRead
It is God who gives us the spirit of worship (Psalm 133:3), and it is what we know of God that produces this spirit of worship. We might say that worship is simply theology, doctrine, what we think about God, going into top gear! Instead of merely thinking about Him, we tell Him, in prayer and praise and song, how great and glorious we believe Him to be!
Sinclair B. FergusonRead
I am a Christian. He who answers thus has declared everything at once-his country, profession, family; the believer belongs to no city on earth but to the heavenly Jerusalem.
Saint John ChrysostomRead
Take away the Book of Mormon and the revelations, and where is our religion? We have none.
Joseph Smith, Jr.Read
What I did was take the Jesus of the Gospels, the Son of God, the Son of the Virgin Mary, and sought to make Him utterly believable, a vital breathing character.
Anne RiceRead