Johann Baptist Metz quotes
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“Every rebellion against suffering is fed by the subversive power of remembered suffering.”
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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.”
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“The shortest definition of religion: interruption.”
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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.”
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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.”
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“Are we Christians in this country really changing our hearts, or do we just believe in a change of heart...?”
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“Sinful man really hopes when he no longer has anything of his own.”
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“Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope.”
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“History is not to be whitewashed "by a screening out of the importance of suffering."”
-- Johann Baptist Metz
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“It is not rebellion itself which is noble but the demands it makes upon us.”
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“Alienation and loneliness plant the seeds for rebellion and consciousness.”
Source : "Towards a Canada of Light". Book by B. W. Powe, 2006.
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“Whenever I get fed up with life I love to go wandering in nature.”
Source : "Andrea Arnold Tackles An Iconic Love Story". Interview with Ella Taylor, www.npr.org. October 9, 2012.
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