The shortest definition of religion: interruption.

- Johann Baptist Metz

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 peo…

- Johann Baptist Metz

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

- Johann Baptist Metz

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

- Johann Baptist Metz

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

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

- Johann Baptist Metz

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

- Johann Baptist Metz

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

- Johann Baptist Metz

We must learn to accept ourselves in the painful experiment of living. We must embrace the spiritual adventure of becoming human, moving through the …

- Johann Baptist Metz