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"How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we shou..." — Karl Rahner

How often I have found that we grow to maturity not by doing what we like, but by doing what we should. How true it is that not every 'should' is a compulsion, and not every 'like' is a high morality and true freedom.
Karl Rahner
Karl Rahner Theologian • German
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