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.
KARL RAHNER
Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.
More Karl Rahner Quotes
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In the post-Christian world, all Christians will be mystics.
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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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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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Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.
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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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Grace can and does have a history.
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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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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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Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.
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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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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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Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.
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