Rahner On Christianity Quotes & Sayings

the generation next to the early emigrants, wore the blackest shade of Puritanism, and so darkened the national visage with it, that all the subsequent years have not sufficed to clear it up. — Nathaniel Hawthorne

The differences between a tart, a pie and a quiche are a blur. — Yotam Ottolenghi

Maybe I should see things as they really are and not as I want them to be. — Sherrie Levine

Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray! — Karl Rahner

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

White wing'd angels meet the child
On the vestibule of life. — Elizabeth Oakes Smith

A road need not be paved in gold to find treasures at its end. — Alan Brennert

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 "only's" should have no place in the Catholic Church. Accepted as basic and ultimate formulas of Christianity, they do not have to lead a person out of the Catholic Church ... They can call the attention of the Catholic church again and again to the fact that grace alone and faith alone really are what saves, and that with all our maneuvering through the history of dogma and the teaching office, we Catholic Christians must find our way back to the sources again and again, back to the primary origins of Holy Scripture and all the more so of the Holy Spirit. — Karl Rahner