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Explore our hand-picked selection of 35 inspiring quotes by Hans Kung.

About Hans Kung

  • Born: March 19, 1928
  • Occupation: Priest
    • That is the roman way: to give favors to the favorites.
    Giving Way Favors
    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.
    Goodbye Moving Time To Move On
    Hundreds of millions of human beings on our planet increasingly suffer from unemployment, poverty, hunger, and the destruction of their families.
    Suffering Poverty Unemployment
    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.
    Rights Essence Ethics
    I like the catholicity in time: our tradition is one of 2,000 years.
    Years Tradition
    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.
    Believe Views Bigs
    Everyone agrees the celibacy rule is just a church law dating from the 11th century, not a divine command.
    Law Dating Church
    For many people, the pope is still, to a certain extent, a positive role model and a moral force, although others feel that this aspect has suffered greatly.
    People Role Models Roles
    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.
    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.
    Meaningful Space Add
    The gospel has to be the norm.
    Norm
    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.
    War Two Humanity
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