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"He gives me a little shrug, like, of course, why else? And at this point, I really have no right to be surprised by people's capacity for kindness and generosity, but still, I am. I'm floored every time."
"In recognizing the humanity of our fellow beings, we pay ourselves the highest tribute."
"I think if you follow anyone home, whether they live in Houston or London, and you sit at their dinner table and talk to them about their mother who has cancer or their child who is struggling in school, and their fears about watching their lives go by, I think we're all the same."
"He was dimly angry with himself, he did not know why. It was that he had struck his wife. He had forgotten it, but was miserable about it, notwithstanding. And this misery was the voice of the great Love that had made him and his wife and the baby and Diamond, speaking in his heart, and telling him to be good. For that great Love speaks in the most wretched and dirty hearts; only the tone of its voice depends on the echoes of the place in which it sounds. On Mount Sinai, it was thunder; in the cabman's heart it was misery; in the soul of St John it was perfect blessedness."
"The less human you feel, the more human you become."
"For how can any human be separate from humanity and humanness?"
"I think you have more fun as a human being even though it is much more painful."
"These boys talk more than a pack ofwomen."
Explore more quotes by Hans Kung
"The Epistle to the Romans is an extremely important synthesis of the whole theology of St. Paul."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"We are conscious that religions cannot solve the economic, political and social problems of this earth."
"As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions."
"It is an absolutely unique success of the church community to have introduced such an epoch-making change, in just a few years, without having a serious division."
"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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