"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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“What naturally you want to do if you were a prominent person in the public light and you are disgraced, you want to make a comeback, and normally that begins with somebody saying, 'I want to do something to help people. I want to do something to help the lepers in the Third World. I want to do something to help abandoned wives in India.'”
“There is no surer or more illuminating way of reading a man's character, and perhaps a little of his past history, than by observing the contexts in which he prefers to use certain words.”

Source : Owen Barfield (1954). “History in English Words by Owen Barfield”
“Although my royal rank causes me to doubt whether my kingdom is not more sought after than myself, yet I understand that you havefound other graces in me.”
“Book after book, I get hooked, every time the writer talks to me like a friend.”
“The fruition of the year had come and the night should have been fine with a moon in the sky and the crisp sharp promise of frost in the air, but it wasn't that way. It rained and little puddles of water shone under the street lamps on Main Street. In the woods in the darkness beyond the Fair Ground water dripped from the black trees.”
“I think that whatever nationality you are, you should be treated equally, otherwise you don't have equality.”
“Samâ€™s probably out there somewhere being his usual heroic self,â€ Caine said. â€œI canâ€™t let that boy save the world all alone. Iâ€™d never live it down.”
“When he breathed he truly was Australia's greatest white elder and friend without peer to the original Australians.”

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