Karl Rahner Quotes


"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
(Related: Body, Christ, Expression, Meaning, Words)

"The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all."
- Karl Rahner
(Related: Christian, Future, Will)

"Grace can and does have a history."
- Karl Rahner
(Related: History, Grace)

"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
(Related: God, Hope, Longing, Promise, Songs, Waiting)

"Grace is everywhere as an active orientation of all created reality toward God."
- Karl Rahner
(Related: God, Grace, Reality)