Grace can and does have a history.
KARL RAHNERWhat 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.
More Karl Rahner Quotes
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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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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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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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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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Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.
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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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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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The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
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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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The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism.
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In the post-Christian world, all Christians will be mystics.
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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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When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.
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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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