Karl Rahner Quotes

• 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.

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• Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

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• When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

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  Topics in 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.

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• The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

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• How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every ‘should’ is a compulsion, and not every ‘like’ is a high morality and true freedom.

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• Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.

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• Grace can and does have a history.

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• 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.

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Karl Rahner (9)

Birth:	5th March, 1904
Death:	30th March, 1984
Nationality:	German
Profession:	Theologian

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Karl Rahner was a German Jesuit priest and theologian who, alongside Henri de Lubac, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Yves Congar, is considered one of the most influential Catholic theologians of the 20th century. He was the brother of Hugo Rahner.

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