Quotes by Karl Rahner
Karl Rahner (1904–1984) — Theologe · Katholisch · Deutschland
Karl Rahner (1904–1984) war ein deutscher Jesuit und katholischer Dogmatiker, der als Universitätsprofessor in Innsbruck, München und Münster lehrte. Er prägte als Berater maßgeblich das Zweite Vatikanische Konzil und verband christliche Dogmatik mit moderner Philosophie, wobei sein Konzept des „anonymen Christentums“ konservative theologische Kritik hervorrief. Für heutige Bibelleser bietet sein Denken Zugänge, theologische Grundaussagen im Horizont existenzieller menschlicher Erfahrung und säkularen Denkens zu reflektieren.
Era: The 20th Century
Recurring topics: Faith & Trust, God, Jesus & the Holy Spirit, Discipleship, Church & Congregation, Growth & Character, Humility & Pride, Wisdom & Understanding, Prayer & Silence
Quotes by Karl Rahner
The virtue of everyday life is hope, in which one does what is possible and trusts God with what is impossible.
Karl Rahner
The devout person of the future will be a mystic, one who has experienced something, or he will cease to be.
Karl Rahner
The church is an old woman with many wrinkles and folds. But she is my mother. And one does not beat one's mother.
Karl Rahner
The most uncomfortable form of movement is going into oneself.
Karl Rahner
Prayer of petition involves both: the certainty of being heard and the complete renunciation of being heard according to one's own plan.
Karl Rahner
In the end one departs with empty hands, I know it; but it is good that way. Then one looks upon the Crucified and goes.
Karl Rahner
One can learn to sanctify through prayer the dead moments in everyday life, in which one can do nothing, in which one must wait and stand in line.
Karl Rahner
For all abstract theology would ultimately run into a void if it did not transcend itself from words about the matter into a prayer in which that of which there was only speech might perhaps truly come to pass.
Karl Rahner
To believe means: to endure the incomprehensibility of God for a whole life.
Karl Rahner
Thank God, that which ninety percent of people imagine under God does not exist.
Karl Rahner
God is the last word before our falling silent.
Karl Rahner
I have tried in this customary banality to serve God, that is all.
Karl Rahner
Everything depends on how we endure everyday life. It can make us commonplace. But it can also make us free from ourselves as nothing else can.
Karl Rahner
In the practice of our existence, it is indeed the case that the acceptance of God as the unavailable mystery and the silent acceptance of the inexplicability and unanswerability of suffering are one and the same process.
Karl Rahner
The absolute death of the word 'God', wiping out even its own past, would be the signal, heard by no one anymore, that man himself has died.
Karl Rahner
The Christian is convinced in his faith that the answer he must give to the problem of his suffering is only possible as a grace-given co-enactment of the answer that Jesus gave on the cross to the agony of death into which he willingly sank.
Karl Rahner
Only a person who has the courage to radically question themselves — themselves, not others, not just this or that about themselves — can understand the Sermon on the Mount.
Karl Rahner
The Church of the future must above all be a Church of living spirituality.
Karl Rahner
I have not led a life; I have worked, written, lectured, sought to do my duty, to earn my bread.
Karl Rahner
We are his servants not merely when we fill his lofty cathedrals.
Karl Rahner
To be a Christian, not because one believes, but because one wishes to hide from and before oneself one's unbelief, which would otherwise terrify one too much.
Karl Rahner
All theological speech about God is analogical.
Karl Rahner
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Sources: spiegel.de, religionsphilosophischer-salon.de, d-nb.info, deutschlandfunk.de
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