“ 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!
~ Karl Rahner
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.
The task of the theologian is to explain everything through God, and to explain God as unexplainable.