Hans Kung Quotes

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• There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
• In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
• Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
• Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
• Even apart from the image of a truly merciless God that contradicts everything we can assume from what Jesus says about the Either of the…
• 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…
• The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.
• We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
• 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…
• Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
• But I have to add - and this answers your other question - this catholicity in time and in space is only meaningful for me…
• A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
• It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
• 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…
• Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
• The Gospel has to be the norm.
• 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…
• As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
• I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
• A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.

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