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.
HANS KUNGThe Gospel has to be the norm.
More Hans Kung Quotes
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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.
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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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It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
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That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
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Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
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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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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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God’s love does not protect us from suffering. God’s love protects us in the midst of suffering.
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