Faith in God is like the risk of swimming: one must entrust oneself to the element and see if it holds.

— Hans Küng (1928–2021), Katholischer Theologe, Universitätsprofessor und Priester

Hans Küng

Hans Küng (1928–2021) war ein Schweizer römisch-katholischer Theologe, Priester und langjähriger Universitätsprofessor in Tübingen sowie Berater beim Zweiten Vatikanischen Konzil. Bekanntheit erlangte er durch grundlegende Werke wie „Christ sein“ und sein „Projekt Weltethos“, verlor jedoch 1979 nach scharfer Kritik am Dogma der päpstlichen Unfehlbarkeit seine kirchliche Lehrerlaubnis. Heutigen Bibellesern bietet sein Werk Anstöße für eine intellektuell reflektierte Glaubenspraxis im interreligiösen und ökumenischen Horizont.

All quotes by Hans Küng (4)

More on this topic

By gentle powers wonderfully sheltered, we quietly await what e'er may come. God is with us at evening and in morning, and most assuredly on each new day.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer

I would not be able to seek you if you had not already found me.
Augustine of Hippo

It is unimaginable what God can make of the fragments of our life, when we surrender them to him completely.
Blaise Pascal

For those who love God, he turns everything into good, even their wrong turns and mistakes God lets become good for them.
Augustine of Hippo

I asked God for many things so that I could enjoy life. God gave me life, so that I could enjoy all things.
Gertrud von le Fort

We live out of the boundless riches of Christ. Some of us talk as if our heavenly Father had fobbed us off with pocket money.
Oswald Chambers

No one can fall deeper than into the hand of God.
Peter Hahne

God seeks you more than your offering.
Augustine of Hippo

All quotes · lumen.bible