58 Quotes by Hans Küng

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.

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.

Religion often is misused for purely power-political goals, including war.

The Gospel has to be the norm.

As a matter of fact, you have deficiencies in all religions, but you have truth in all religions.

A Church which abandons the truth abandons itself.

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

Time and again we see leaders and members of religions incite aggression, fanaticism, hate, and xenophobia - even inspire and legitimate violent and bloody conflicts.

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.