Johann Baptist Metz Quotes

• Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.

  Johann Baptist Metz

  Pain, Suffering, Remember

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• The dead of Auschwitz should have brought upon us a total transformation; nothing should have been allowed to remain as it was, neither among our people nor in our churches. Above all, not in the churches.

  Johann Baptist Metz

  Should Have, People, Holocaust

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• The shortest definition of religion: interruption.

  Johann Baptist Metz

  Definitions, Interruptions

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• We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the many stages that lie between birth and death.

  Johann Baptist Metz

  Spiritual, Lying, Moving

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• Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope.

  Johann Baptist Metz

  Hope, Church, Moral

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• Are we Christians in this country really changing our hearts, or do we just believe in a change of heart...?

  Johann Baptist Metz

  Christian, Country, Attitude

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• History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering."

  Johann Baptist Metz

  Suffering, Importance, Screening

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• Sinful man really hopes when he no longer has anything of his own.

  Johann Baptist Metz

  Hope, Men

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• In order to experience and understand what it means to be a Christian, it is always necessary to recognize a definite historical situation.

  Johann Baptist Metz

  Christian, Mean, Order

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