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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.

Karl Rahner

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

Freedom Growth Maturity Moral Myself True
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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Difference Form Hide Stand
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
Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.
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Deep God Important Religious
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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Allow Forget Himself Love Man Mercy
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
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
The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
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Existence Future Himself Mystery
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
In the post-Christian world, all Christians will be mystics.
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Religious World
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
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
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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Expression Meaning Myself Quite Word
Grace can and does have a history.
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Grace History One Liner
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
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
Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.
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Active Creation Grace Orientation Reality
When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.
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God Himself Man Prayer
Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.
KARL RAHNER

Authentic Help Learning Transcendence Whole

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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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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