Karl Rahner

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

“Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God.”

“In the days of winter, I am a summer person.”

“The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their lifestyles.”

“Knowing God is more important than knowing about God.”

“In the torment of the insufficiency of everything attainable, we eventually learn that here, in this life, all symphonies remain unfinished.”

“When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.”

“Love is the only reality and it is not a mere sentiment. It is the ultimate truth that lies at the heart of creation.”

“The dead are ever present with us, in their life which is now our own.”

“Only in love can I find you, my God. In love the gates of my soul spring open, allowing me to breathe a new air of freedom and forget my own petty self.”

“The silent mystery of God is beyond all utterance.”

“The struggle for a human future is a struggle for a humane future.”

“The task of the theologian is to explain everything through God and to explain God as unexplainable.”

“The home is the first and most important school of discipleship.”

“What is a human being? A being who is questionable in his very being.”

“The great and secret commandments of the spiritual life are not to be learned by rote, but are to be experienced.”