"The task of the theologian is to explain everything through God, and to explain God as unexplainable.










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

More Karl Rahner quotes
"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 son...
"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)....
"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 ...
"Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!


