Hans Kung famous quotes

04-14-2025

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.
-- Hans Kung

#Community #Historical #Earth
In the last resort, a love of God without love of humanity is no love at all.
-- Hans Kung

#Thought Provoking #Humanity #Lasts
There will be peace on earth when there is peace among the world religions.
-- Hans Kung

#Diversity #World #Earth
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.
-- Hans Kung

#Dialogue
The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul.
-- Hans Kung

#Important #Synthesis #Theology
If you cannot see that divinity includes male and female characteristics and at the same time transcends them, you have bad consequences. Rome and Cardinal O'Connor base the exclusion of women priests on the idea that God is the Father and Jesus is His Son, there were only male disciples, etc. They are defending a patriarchal Church with a patriarchal God. We must fight the patriarchal misunderstanding of God.
-- Hans Kung

#Jesus #Father #Fighting
Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.
-- Hans Kung

#Xenophobia #Hate #Moving
Humanity today possesses sufficient economic, cultural and spiritual resources to introduce a better global order.
-- Hans Kung

#Spiritual #Order #Humanity
A human person is infinitely precious and must be unconditionally protected.
-- Hans Kung

#Humans #Persons
A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.
-- Hans Kung

#Church #Abandon
Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
-- Hans Kung

#Suffering #Unemployment #Poverty
We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth.
-- Hans Kung

#Political #Earth #Problem
Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a Church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
-- Hans Kung

#Law #Dating #Church
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

#War #Two #Humanity
I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
-- Hans Kung

#Years #Tradition
As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.
-- Hans Kung

#Matter #Facts #Deficiency
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.
-- Hans Kung

#Children #Wife #Temptation
Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.
-- Hans Kung

#War #Goal #Political
That is the Roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
-- Hans Kung

#Giving #Favors #Way
The Gospel has to be the norm.
-- Hans Kung

#Norm
It is not certain that everything is certain, neither is it certain that everything is uncertain.
-- Hans Kung

#Intriguing #Uncertain #Certain
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

#People #Community #Understanding
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 Kung

#Meaningful #Space #Add
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

#Rights #Essence #Ethics
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

#Men #Evil #Different
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 lost, can we be surprised at a time when retributive punishments without an opportunity of probation are being increasingly abandoned in education and penal justice, that the idea not only of a lifelong, but even eternal punishment of body and soul, seems to many people absolutely monstrous.
-- Hans Kung

#Jesus #Opportunity #Punishment

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