Johann Baptist Metz Quotes

#1. Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope.

Johann Baptist Metz

#2. We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death.

Johann Baptist Metz

#3. In order to experience and understand what it means to be a Christian, it is always necessary to recognize a definite historical situation.

Johann Baptist Metz

#4. History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering."

Johann Baptist Metz

#5. [N]one of us drinks the chalice of our existence to the last drop. None of us is fully obedient. Each of us falls short of the human nature entrusted to us.

Johann Baptist Metz

#6. The shortest definition of religion: interruption.

Johann Baptist Metz

#7. Are we Christians in this country really changing our hearts, or do we just believe in a change of heart ... ?

Johann Baptist Metz

#8. The dead of Auschwitz should have brought upon us a total transformation; nothing should have been allowed to remain as it was, neither among our people nor in our churches. Above all, not in the churches.

Johann Baptist Metz

#9. Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.

Johann Baptist Metz

#10. Sinful man really hopes when he no longer has anything of his own.

Johann Baptist Metz