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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
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Karl Rahner
Latin Catholic priest, theologian, writer, university teacher
🔗 Read on Wikipedia1904 – 1984
Karl Rahner was a German Jesuit priest and theologian who, alongside Henri de Lubac, Hans Urs von Balthasar, and Yves Congar, is considered to be one of the most influential Catholic theologians of the 20th-century. He was the brother of Hugo Rahner, also a Jesuit scholar, and from 1962 on, had a romantic relationship with the German writer Luise Rinser for twenty-two years.
All Quotes by Karl Rahner
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Grace can and does have a history.
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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
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The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all.
— Karl Rahner
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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