Johann Baptist Metz Quotes

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

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

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.

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

The shortest definition of religion: interruption.

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

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

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

Tko npr. formulira govor o Bogu Abrahamovu, Izakovu i Jakovljevu tako da se u njemu više ne čuje Jobov uzdisaj i tužaljka 'Ta dokle još?', taj se ne bavi teologijom nego mitologijom.

[N]one of us drinks the chalice of our existence to the last drop. None of us is fully obedient. Each of us falls short of the human nature entrusted to us.