Quote by Karl Rahner
How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what

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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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

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