In the midst of our lives, of our freedom and our struggles, we have to make a radical, absolute decision. And we never know when lightening will strike us out of the blue. It may be when we least expect to be asked whether we have the absolute faith and trust to say yes

The Great Church Year: The Best of Karl Rahner's Homilies, Sermons, and Meditations (ed. Crossroad Publishing Company, 1993)