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
The reality of loving God is loving him like he's a Superhero who actually saved you from stuff rather than a Santa Claus who merely gave you some stuff.
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Criss Jami
What we are reluctant to touch often seems the very fabric of our salvation.
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Don DeLillo
Surely the earth can be savedby all the peoplewho insiston love.
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Alice Walker
My happiness is not the means to any end. It is the end. It is its own goal. It is its own purpose.
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Ayn Rand
There is nothing more important than your eternal salvation.
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Kirk Cameron
More Quotes By Karl Rahner
When man is with God in awe and love, then he is praying.
Meditating on the nature and dignity of prayer can cause saying at least one thing to God: Lord, teach us to pray!
For it is the bitter grief of theology and its blessed task, too, always to have to seek (because it does not clearly have present to it at the time)...always providing that one has the courage to ask questions, to be dissatisfied, to think with...
In the days ahead, you will either be a mystic (one who has experienced God for real) or nothing at all.
The dead are silent because they live, just as we chatter so loudly to try to make ourselves forget that we are dying. Their silence is really their call to me, the assurance of their immortal love for me.
