Karl Rahner Quotes

Freedom makes a huge requirement of every human being. With freedom comes responsibility. For the person who is unwilling to grow up, the person who does not want to carry is own weight, this is a frightening prospect.

Most of us don't mind doing what we ought to do when it doesn't interfere with what we want to do, but it takes discipline and maturity to do what we ought to do whether we want to or not.

It's in responsibility that most people find the meaning that sustains them through life. It's not in happiness. It's not in impulsive pleasure.

Freedom consists not in doing what we like, but in having the right to do what we ought.

May we think of freedom, not as the right to do as we please, but as the opportunity to do what is right.

You need responsibility in life.

True liberty consists only in the power of doing what we ought to well, and in not being constrained to do what we ought not to do.

Anything which tends to bring a greater sense of responsibility to individuals should be encouraged.

Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.

There are two freedoms - the false, where a man is free to do what he likes; the true, where he is free to do what he ought.

Disciplining yourself to do what you know is right and important, although difficult, is the highroad to pride, self-esteem, and personal satisfaction.

Liberty is not the power of doing what we like, but the right to do what we ought.

Responsibility educates.

Most of us know perfectly well what we ought to do; our trouble is that we do not want to do it.

In everyday things the law of sacrifice takes the form of positive duty.

Responsibility is the thing people dread most of all. Yet it is the one thing in the world that develops us, gives us manhood or womanhood fiber.

Let others laugh when you sacrifice desire to duty, if they will. You have time and eternity to rejoice in.

Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.

If you are living out of a sense of obligation you are slave.

Absolute liberty is absence of restraint; responsibility is restraint; therefore, the ideally free individual is responsible to himself.

Conscientious people are apt to see their duty in that which is the most painful course.

It's not that I'm Mr. Goody-Two-Shoes now, but I've got my priorities in order.

It's absolutely true that unless you can instill discipline upon yourself, you will never be able to lead others.

You cheat yourself when you don't do what it is you're supposed to do. You have an obligation to learn everything that you can.

I had no plans to become a responsible person.