Skip to content

Bishops Quote by Hans Kung

“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.” quote by Hans Kung — Download Open image

“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.”

★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.9 out of 5 (8 ratings)

Bishops Church Communion Community Hierarchy Learning People Priests Servant Thirds Understanding

More by Hans Kung

Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.

Image

A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.

Image

There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.

Image

A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.

Image

“No peace among the nations without peace among the religions. No peace among the religions without dialogue between the religions No dialogue between the…

Image

The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.

Image

We should think about whether canonizations, which are an invention of the Middle Ages, still make sense today.

Image

It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.

Image

“The Pope would have an easier job than the President of the United States in adopting a change of course. He has no Congress…

Image

Alluding to hell is a warning that a person can completely neglect his purpose in life. I don't believe in an eternal hell.

Image

“The face he showed in Jesus is really his true and single face.”

Image

We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.

Image

Explore all 48 Hans Kung quotes

More Bishops quotes

The good Bishop of Assisi expressed a sort of horror at the hard life which the Little Brothers lived at the Portiuncula, without comforts,…

Image

My last two characters have been Denethor and Walter Bishop. Both will be hard acts to follow. That sits in the hands of my…

Image

The one thing that the Catholic Church desires, and that I seek as Bishop of Rome, “the Church which presides in charity”, is communion…

Image

And the bigger the fall, the bigger the joke. It would be better fun to throw a custard pie at a bishop than at…

Image

I don't see Jesus as rescuing the fallen; I see Jesus as expanding the potential of life. The primary reason the old idea of…

John Shelby Spong

Image

It was a blonde. A blonde to make a bishop kick a hole in a stained-glass window.

Raymond Chandler

Image

We want to create, never mind the leaders or the bishops or chief rabbis or imams, or Popes. We want to create a grassroots…

Karen Armstrong

Image

Only a good bishop can be sacrificed, a bad bishop can only be lost.

Image

Archbishop Milingo is a good Bishop and his contention that there are satanists in Rome is completely correct. Anybody who is acquainted with the…

Image

The future belongs to he who has the bishops.

Siegbert Tarrasch

Image

Inherent in the ordination to be bishop is both the right and the obligation to be directed by inspiration.

Image

Our bishops storehouses are not intended to stock enough commodities to care for all the members of the Church. Storehouses are only established to…

Ezra Taft Benson

Image

Browse all 317 Bishops quotes