Johann Baptist Metz
Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.Collection: Pain
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.Collection: Spiritual
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.Collection: Should Have
The shortest definition of religion: interruption.Collection: Definitions
Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope.Collection: Hope
Are we Christians in this country really changing our hearts, or do we just believe in a change of heart...?Collection: Christian
In order to experience and understand what it means to be a Christian, it is always necessary to recognize a definite historical situation.Collection: Christian
History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering."Collection: Suffering
Sinful man really hopes when he no longer has anything of his own.Collection: Hope