Signposts

Changing the Church

If anyone wants to have the Church changed, he must make himself the starting-point of renewal. For the critic himself is part of what the Church is suffering from. For usually his own life is not much of a recommendation for Christianity.

— Karl Rahner, SJ, Theology for Renewal:  Bishops, Priests, Laity  <link>

The lifetime assigned to us is the short moment in which what is meant to be comes to be.

— Karl Rahner  <link>