Rahner Karl Quotes

#1. If we have been given the vocation and grace to die with Christ then the everyday and banal occurrence which we call human death has been elevated to a place among God's mysteries.

Karl Rahner

#2. 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.

Karl Rahner

#3. The saints differ from us in their exuberance, the excess of our human talents. Moderation is not their secret. It is in the wildness of their dreams, the desperate vitality of their ambitions, that they stand apart from ordinary people of good will.

Phyllis McGinley

#4. The ideal itself is but truth clothed in the forms of art.

Octave Feuillet

#5. 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

#6. Learning always involves self-transcendence. Learning calls forth what is in us, helping us to move toward authenticity and wholeness.

Karl Rahner

#7. I'm totally crazy, I know that. I don't say that to be a smartass, but I know that that's the very essence of what makes my work good. And I know my work is good. Not everybody likes it, that's fine. I don't do it for everybody. Or anybody. I do it because I can't not do it.

Maurice Sendak

#8. Satan is the master distracter. He is always working to keep us off track in our walk with God.

Joyce Meyer

#9. The struggle against atheism is foremost and of necessity a struggle against the inadequacy of our own theism.

Karl Rahner

#10. Our habits are really our values in action.

Diane S. Menendez

#11. Treat backstory like a pungent spice. I say this to encourage you to picture a jalapeno pepper that can set your mouth on fire, every time you even think about adding backstory into your book.

What you need is subtlety.

Sandy Vaile

#12. 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.

Karl Rahner

#13. In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.

Karl Rahner

#14. 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.

Karl Rahner

#15. 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.

Karl Rahner

#16. You don't have to go out there and fit the mold of what a quarterback is supposed to be. Make your own mold and do the best at each role. If you can run with the best and throw with the best, you can be the best quarterback in your own version of the position.

Robert Griffin III

#17. 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

#18. From time to time, I need a rest from the exercitation of my intellect.

Jean Stafford

#19. When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.

Karl Rahner

#20. Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!

Karl Rahner

#21. He began reading her eyes more deeply and passionately than the books in the library.

Avijeet Das

#22. And hey-the psychiatrist in the show is Italian also. So people are going to focus on what they want to focus on. There's not much you can do about that.

Edie Falco

#23. Grace can and does have a history.

Karl Rahner

#24. Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.

Karl Rahner

#25. 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.

Karl Rahner

#26. 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

#27. Piglet thought that they ought to have a Reason for going to see everybody, like Looking for Small or Organizing an Expotition, if Pooh could think of something.
Pooh could.
"We'll go because it's Thursday," he said, "and we'll go to wish everybody a Very Happy Thursday. Come on, Piglet.

A.A. Milne

#28. 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.

Karl Rahner

#29. Science is just as important as magic.

Donna Grant

#30. 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

Karl Rahner

#31. Above all, I declare that Jesus Christ is the center of our faith; I testify to you that he lives. He leads his Church today; he hears our prayers when we humbly, earnestly, unceasingly seek to know his will, making this, too, a day of miracles and of revelation.

Spencer W. Kimball

#32. They mistrust you because they think you'll be the death of me," Roark said softly. "Tell me, Nix. Will you?

Jae T. Jaggart

#33. The task of the theologian is to explain everything through God, and to explain God as unexplainable.

Karl Rahner

#34. In the post-Christian world, all Christians will be mystics.

Karl Rahner

#35. Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.

Karl Rahner

#36. The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.

Karl Rahner