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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

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.
KARL RAHNER

Allow Forget Himself Love Man Mercy
In the post-Christian world, all Christians will be mystics.
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Religious World
Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.
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Authentic Help Learning Transcendence Whole
Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.
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Deep God Important Religious
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 Growth Maturity Moral Myself True
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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Death Forget Immortal Love Myself Silence
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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Beautiful Celebration Hope Myself Prayer Promise Season
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

Difference Form Hide Stand
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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Action Atheist Believe Himself
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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Empty God Himself Intimacy Name Silence
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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Basic Childhood Life Live Myself
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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Dignity Meditation Myself Nature Prayer Teaching
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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Day Experience God Himself Mystery Reality
The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism.
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Adequate Necessary Struggle
The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
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Existence Future Himself Mystery
When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.
KARL RAHNER

God Himself Man Prayer

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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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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