More Rahner Spirituality

We never succeed in compressing together into the narrow confines of our finiteness everything that appears good to us, good just because it is: life and wisdom, goodness and power, strength and tenderness. These and all other varied forces of our life are things we neither can nor want to do without, and yet each of them inevitably excludes another. There is only one thing we can do, and do it we must: order always forces, arrange them in some kind of hierarchy, allot to each of them its proper place and limits, so that no single one becomes complete master and thus blots out all the others. We must preserve the order in our life, we must live a life of moderation.
We must be careful lest the spirit become the adversary of the soul, lest goodness turned into weakness, lest strength degenerate into mere brute force. All these things are like so many parasites clamoring for share of our life's blood, all greedily desiring to live in us and through us.
There is nothing here into which we dare throw ourselves completely, nothing to which we can fully abandon ourselves. Any such lack of moderation would spell ruin for both us and for the object of our attachment. Those who know everything are seldom warm of heart; the mighty of this world are usually hard; and it is proverbial that the beautiful are often stupid. And so it must be: how could we be finite and be all these things together?

From "Encounters with Silence", by Karl Rahner, page 11, 12