Karl Rahner Quotes

Grace Can And Does Have A History.

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 Songs Of Hope And Promise.

But There Is Yet Another Form Of This Hidden Heresy, And, Paradoxically, It Can Affect Those Who Are Proudest Of Their Long-standing And Unimpeachable Orthodoxy; Heresy In The Form Of Indifference.

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 Appropriate To A Life That Is Lived Aright.

Meditating On The Nature And Dignity Of Prayer Can Cause Saying At Least One Thing To God: Lord, Teach Us To Pray!

The Struggle Against Atheism Is Foremost And Of Necessity A Struggle Against The Inadequacy Of Our Own Theism.

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.

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.

What Christ Gives Us Is Quite Explicit If His Own Words Are Interpreted According To Their Aramaic Meaning. The Expression 'this Is My Body' Means This Is Myself.

In The Post-christian World, All Christians Will Be Mystics.

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 Strike Us Out Of The Blue. It May Be When We Least Expect To Be Asked Whether We Have The Absolute Faith And Trust To Say Yes

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.