That would sorta undermine the principle of modernism to go with a direct quote tho
Not at all. I've known many Modernists who make citations and direct quotations all the time. In fact, Rahner compiled the 1960
Enchiridion Symbolorum, which is little more than a huge volume of quotes from the Magisterium. Now, he did sneak stuff in there that should have been there, but that's a separate issue.
Rahner was a Modernist, but he was an extremely well-educated and bright individual ... no dummy by any stretch.
Alas, having been a German, he was excessively enamored by the philosophy of Kant, and that led him down the unfortunate path to phenomenology, which is at the heart of Modernism.