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

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

- 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

Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.

- Karl Rahner

The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism.

- 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