Karl Rahner Quotes

Christianity has always embraced both reason and faith.

I'm telling you, God loves a lot of people.

I'm a theological writer mistaken for a political writer. My theme is grace versus karma.

In the New Testament, religion is grace and ethics is gratitude.

Christianity is the greatest intellectual system the mind of man has ever touched.

An important function of theology is to keep religion tied to reason and reason to religion. Both roles are of essential importance for humanity.

I don't go to movies for redemption - if I want that, I'll go to church!

The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded on something deeper than human ability or wishful thinking.

For God so loved the World that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.

How do you live with evil? Art is traditionally - certainly with my secular background - the answer, but art is very self-referential, whereas religion claims to go beyond the bounds of human existence.

Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history; therefore we must be saved by faith.

The most powerful idea that's entered the world in the last few thousand years - the idea of grace - is the reason I would like to be a Christian.

I'm nothing without God.

My message is that God is a good God.

We are saved by grace, not by the works of the law. But don't be so quick to write the law off.

I believe in God and his son, Jesus.

As a practicing Catholic all my life, my faith and the church are never far from my mind. The lessons I learned in the church have structured the way I've approached my life and my career. They were lessons of grace, kindness, forgiveness, and compassion.

People are hurting and looking for answers. The Gospel gives us hope.

I'm not ashamed of the Gospel.

God is love.

Jesus died for our sins, not our sexuality.

One day I was talking to Cora. She prayed for me because she believed I was blind to sin, wanting me to kneel and pray too, because people to whom sin is just a matter of words, to them salvation is just words too.

The heart of the Christian faith is Good News, not good advice, good technique, or good behavior.

By virtue of believing in a Supreme Being one embraces certain mysteries.

Thus in Christianity the alienation had become total, and it was this total alienation that was the biggest obstacle to the progress of self-consciousness.