Karl Rahner: the Qualities of Eternity

"Scripture describes the content of the blessed life of the dead in a thousand images: as rest and peace, as a banquet and as glory, as being at home in the Father's house, as the kingdom of God's eternal Lordship, as the community of all who have reached blessed fulfillment, as the inheritance of God's glory, as day which will never end, and as satisfaction without boredom. Throughout all the words of scripture we always surmise one and the same thing: God is absolute mystery. And therefore fulfillment and absolute closeness to God . . . is also an ineffable mystery which we go to meet and which the dead who die in the Lord find, as the Apocalypse says. It is the mystery of ineffable happiness."

(Theology quote: Karl Rahner, Foundations of Christian Faith 441).