We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
HANS KUNGI’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.
More Hans Kung Quotes
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God’s love does not protect us from suffering. God’s love protects us in the midst of suffering.
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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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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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It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
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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.
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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 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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Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
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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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A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
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There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
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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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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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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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