Johann Baptist Metz Quotes

#1. People are hard to govern. The rulers interfere with too much. That is why people are hard to govern.

Laozi

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

Johann Baptist Metz

#3. 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

#4. Cancer is not one disease but many diseases.

Siddhartha Mukherjee

#5. A happy arrangement: many people prefer cats to other people, and many cats prefer people to other cats.

Mason Cooley

#6. 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

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

Johann Baptist Metz

#8. [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

#9. The shortest definition of religion: interruption.

Johann Baptist Metz

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

Johann Baptist Metz

#11. He loved Jaime. He loved him so much sometimes he thought he must certainly be losing his mind. It was hard to believe his heart could go on beating minute after minute, day after day, when it felt so distorted and huge and fragile.

Marie Sexton

#12. 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

#13. After a few fights, you're afraid a lot less.

Chuck Palahniuk

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

Johann Baptist Metz

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

Johann Baptist Metz

#16. I am not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where facts are concerned.

Richard Dawkins