Karl Rahner Quotes

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, True, Maturity

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

Christmas, God, Hope

Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.
Karl Rahner

God, Reality, Grace

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

Future, Christian, Exist

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

Words, Means, Body

Grace can and does have a history.
Karl Rahner

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Biography

Nationality: German

Type: Theologian

Born: March 5, 1904

Died: March 30, 1984

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