Top 42 Hans Kung Quotes
#1. That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
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#2. But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me if there is, at the same time, a concentration on the Gospel.
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#3. The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.
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#4. A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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#5. In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
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#6. All historical experience demonstrates the following: Our earth cannot be changed unless in the not too distant future an alteration in the consciousness of individuals is achieved.
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#7. Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
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#8. Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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#9. I am firmly convinced that there is life after death, not in a primitive sense but as the entry of my completely finite person into God's infinity, as a transition into another reality beyond the dimension of space and time that pure reason can neither affirm nor deny.
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#10. Does not simply contain God's word: it becomes God's word for anyone who submits trustfully and in faith to its testimony.
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#11. I'm not saying goodbye to life because I'm a misanthropist or disdain this life, but because, for other reasons, it's time to move on.
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#12. Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
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#13. It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division.
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#14. It considers this Jesus as ultimately decisive, definitive, archetypal for man in these various dimensions of his.
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#15. God's love does not protect us from suffering. God's love protects us in the midst of suffering.
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#16. For many people, the pope is still, to a certain extent, a positive role model and a moral force, although others feel that this aspect has suffered greatly.
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#17. If priests were allowed to marry, if this would be an optional thing, and if he could have wife and children, he would certainly have less temptation to satisfy certain sexual impulses with minors.
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#18. There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
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#19. The Gospel has to be the norm.
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#20. I remember the Curia said, that's up to the American bishops, not up to Rome.
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#21. Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell.
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#22. Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
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#23. And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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#24. The face he showed in Jesus is really his true and single face.
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#25. Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
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#26. Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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#27. A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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#28. No peace among the nations
without peace among the religions.
No peace among the religions
without dialogue between the religions
No dialogue between the religions
without investigation of the foundation of the religions.
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#29. We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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#30. I don't cling to earthly life because I believe in eternal life. That's the big distinction between my point of view and a purely secular position.
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#31. We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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#32. However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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#33. We are convinced of the fundamental unity of the human family.
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#34. In the event that my illness worsens, I want to have a guarantee that I can die in a dignified manner. Nowhere in the bible does it say that a person has to stick it out to the decreed end. No one tells us what "decreed" means.
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#35. That means that every human being - without distinction of sex, age, race, skin color, language, religion, political view, or national or social origin - possesses an inalienable and untouchable dignity.
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#36. Even manifestly senseless suffering and death can have a meaning, can acquire a meaning. a hidden meaning.
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#37. There will be no peace among the nations without peace among the religions. There will be no peace among the religions without dialogue among the religions.
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#38. As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
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#39. After two world wars, the collapse of fascism, nazism, communism and colonialism and the end of the cold war, humanity has entered a new phase of its history.
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#40. To be no more than scholarly reflection on its object from one particular standpoint, which is anyway one legitimate standpoint among others.
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#41. I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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#42. Historical arguments; traditional apologetics breaks down here. Since man is here dealing with God and this by definition means with the invisible, impalpable, uncontrollable, only one attitude is appropriate and required : believing trust, trusting faith.
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