It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
HANS KUNGGod’s love does not protect us from suffering. God’s love protects us in the midst of suffering.
More Hans Kung Quotes
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A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
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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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In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
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We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
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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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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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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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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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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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God’s love does not protect us from suffering. God’s love protects us in the midst of suffering.
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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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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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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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