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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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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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The Christian of the future will be a mystic or he will not exist at all. – Karl Rahner

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When people talk of the freedom of writing, speaking or thinking I cannot choose but laugh. No such thing ever existed. No such thing now exists but I hope it will exist. But it must be hundreds of years after you and I shall write and speak no more. – John Adams

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Freedom prospers when religion is vibrant and the rule of law under God is acknowledged. – Ronald Reagan

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If we want to talk about freedom, we must mean freedom for others as well as ourselves, and we must mean freedom for everyone inside our frontiers as well as outside. – Wendell Willkie

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Yes, we have the freedom to do what we please, but it only works because we dont do everything we might please – we should exercise some degree of personal, and corporate, responsibility. – Tammy Bruce

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When we become a really mature, grown-up, wise society, we will put teachers at the center of the community, where they belong. We dont honor them enough, we dont pay them enough. – Charles Kuralt

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