“ The task of the theologian is to explain everything through God, and to explain God as unexplainable. 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… Karl Rahner
“ 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
“ In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all. Karl Rahner
“ 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
“ For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not clearly have present to it at the time)...always providing that one has the courage to ask… Karl Rahner
“ For a Catholic understanding of the faith there is no reason why the basic concern of Evangelical Christianity as it comes to expression in the three “only's” should have no place in the Catholic Chur… Karl Rahner
“ 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 fo… Karl Rahner
“ Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray! Karl Rahner
