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.
HANS KUNGI 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.
More Hans Kung Quotes
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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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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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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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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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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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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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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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The Gospel has to be the norm.
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A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
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In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
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That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
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Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
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There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
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It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
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