“Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year w...” — Karl Rahner Quote

“Every year we celebrate the holy season of Advent, O God. Every year we pray those beautiful prayers of longing and waiting, and sing those lovely songs of hope and promise.”

“Grace can and does have a history.”

“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.”

“Christmas for me means starting the day with ackee and saltfish, and cornbread muffins.”

“No matter what else is going on, Christmas is my all-time favorite period in the year. It has a positive effect on me like very little else does, seasonally, that is.”

“I owe my life to my father. I remember that my first Christmas present was a ball. In the district where we lived, there weren't many kids who had one.”