Quotes by Karl Rahner - Page 1

Grace can and does have a history.
Karl Rahner / Theologian
Doe
Grace
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Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.
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Important
Knowing
Knowing God
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When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.
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Men
And Love
Praying
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In the post-Christian world, all Christians will be mystics.
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Christian
Posts
World
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The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
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Faith
Future
Christian
Inspiration
Mystic
Will
He
Exist
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Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.
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Active
Grace
Orientation
Reality
Everywhere
Created
Toward
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In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.
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Real
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The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism.
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Atheism
Struggle
Theism
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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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Causes
Meditation
Prayer
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Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.
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Inspirational
Moving
Self
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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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Christ
Explicit
Expression
Giving
Mean
According
Interpreted
Meaning
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The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable.
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Atheism
Christian
Numbers
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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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Christmas
Smile
Advent
Beautiful
Celebrate
Holy
Longing
Lovely
Prayer
Promise
Song
Waiting
Pray
Season
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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.
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Faith
Believe
Inspiration
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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.
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Childhood
Firsts
Phases
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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.
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Indifference
Long
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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.
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Dying
Silence
Trying
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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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Freedom
Compulsion
Found
Maturity
Morality
Should
True Freedom
True
Grow
Doing
Often
High
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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.
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Eerie
Names
Silence
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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
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Blue
Decision
Struggle
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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.
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Blessed
Grief
Heart
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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.
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Giving
Glimpse
Laughing
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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.
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Heart
Love You
Spring
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