At the same time we are aware that our various religions and ethical traditions often offer very different bases for what is helpful and what is unhelpful for men and women, what is right and what is wrong, what is good and what is evil.
HANS KUNGI like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
More Hans Kung Quotes
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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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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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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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A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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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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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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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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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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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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I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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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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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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As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
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