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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.
Karl Rahner Quotes: But there is yet another
When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.
Karl Rahner Quotes: When man is with God
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.
Karl Rahner Quotes: What Christ gives us is
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
Karl Rahner Quotes: In the midst of our
The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
Karl Rahner Quotes: The Christian of the future
The task of the theologian is to explain everything through God, and to explain God as unexplainable.
Karl Rahner Quotes: The task of the theologian
If we have been given the vocation and grace to die with Christ then the everyday and banal occurrence which we call human death has been elevated to a place among God's mysteries.
Karl Rahner Quotes: If we have been given
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 above all names, by Him who is all in all. And his silence is telling us that He is here.
Karl Rahner Quotes: Emptiness is only a disguise
Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.
Karl Rahner Quotes: Grace is everywhere as an
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 self. In love my whole being streams forth out of the rigid confines of narrowness and anxious self-assertion, which make me a prisoner of my own poverty emptiness. In love all the powers of my soul flow out toward you, wanting never more to return, but to lose themselves completely in you, since by your love you are the inmost center of my heart, closer to me than I am to myself.
Karl Rahner Quotes: Only in love can I
In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.
Karl Rahner Quotes: In the days ahead, you
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.
Karl Rahner Quotes: For it is the bitter
In the ultimate depths of his being man knows nothing more surely than that his knowledge, that is, what is called knowledge in everyday parlance, is only a small island in a vast sea that has not been travelled. It is a floating island, and it might be more familiar to us than the sea, but ultimately it is borne by the sea and only because it is can we be borne by it. Hence the existentiell question for the knower is this: Which does he love more, the small island of his so-called knowledge or the sea of infinite mystery?
Karl Rahner Quotes: In the ultimate depths of
Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!
Karl Rahner Quotes: Meditating on the nature and
Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.
Karl Rahner Quotes: Knowing God is more important
In the post-Christian world, all Christians will be mystics.
Karl Rahner Quotes: In the post-Christian world, all
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