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 the mind and heart one ACTUALLY has, and not with the mind and heart one is SUPPOSED TO have. Karl Rahner
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The sentence above was spoken by Nietzsche. He meant that theology is something that is often difficult to understand, but even more difficult to practice. It requires many questions that are often hard to ask, but it is something that can bring great fulfillment if you are willing to follow the path. If you ask questions, then you are someone who is determined enough to think for yourself instead of accepting dogma blindly.

If your mind and heart are not the way you are supposed to think, then you are someone who would be better off following the path rather than trying to change yourself. The power of asking questions is the greatest power, because it leads you to new knowledge and places you in a position where you can change your wrong thinking into something more correct.

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