black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.

Hans Kung

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 KUNG

Essence Myself Nation Religion Right
I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
HANS KUNG

Catholic Myself Tradition
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 KUNG

Aware Evil Goodness Man Religious Time Tradition Various Woman
That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
HANS KUNG

Favor Myself Roman Way
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.
HANS KUNG

Forever Life Myself Point Position
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.
HANS KUNG

Cold Community End History War World
A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
HANS KUNG

Abandonment Religious Truth
In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
HANS KUNG

God Humanity Love Religious
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.
HANS KUNG

End Life Move On Myself Reason
As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
HANS KUNG

Fact Religion Truth Yourself
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.
HANS KUNG

Community God People Servant Understand
We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.
HANS KUNG

Age Day Invention Thinking
Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
HANS KUNG

Better Economics Global Humanity Order Possession
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.
HANS KUNG

Dignity Myself Person Religious Worst
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.
HANS KUNG

Complete Death Dimension Life Myself Reality Reason
It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
HANS KUNG

Change Unknown

A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Hans Kung Quotes