Odakle dolazi dojam da je Crkva lakše izlazila na kraj s krivcima-počiniteljima negoli s nedužnim žrtvama? Nije li naša kristologija toliko pretjerano determinirana soteriološki da više niti ne dopušta teodicejsko pitanje (na koje se niti može dati odgovor niti ga se može zaboraviti)?


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Indeed, it wasn't working between us,
JOHANN VOGEL
It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - '...
JOHANN MOST
The idea that an independent Scotland - having separated assets and liabilities from the rest of the...
JOHANN LAMONT
We need to find a way of having a conversation across the parties on how you fund local government.
JOHANN LAMONT
The Labour Party in 2011 was in an exceptionally bad place. We'd been hammered in an election. W...
JOHANN LAMONT
That's a really healthy thing - family will always protect you from yourself.
JOHANN LAMONT
As set forth by theologians, the idea of "God" is an argument that assumes its own conclusions, and ...
JOHANN MOST
With the emergence of the Internet, it has become possible for creative and bold people with focus a...
JOHANN LAMONT
The more man clings to religion, the more he believes. The more he believes, the less he knows. The ...
JOHANN MOST
'God' - as revealed in his book of edicts and narratives is practically an idiot. He has nothing to ...
JOHANN MOST
True Christianity consists only in pure faith, love, and an holy life; which holiness of life spring...
JOHANN ARNDT
It is the lash of hunger which compels the poor man to submit. In order to live he must sell - 'volu...
JOHANN MOST
The god of the Christians, as we have seen, is the god who makes promises only to break them; who se...
JOHANN MOST
A god who created man "after his own image", and still the origin of evil in man is not accredited t...
JOHANN MOST
Among all mental diseases that have been systematically inoculated into the human cranium, the relig...
JOHANN MOST
Selfknowledge is best learned, not by contemplation, but by action. Strive to do your duty and you w...
JOHANN GOETHE
I much prefer the sharpest criticism of a single intelligent man to the thoughtless approval of the ...
JOHANN KEPLER
For true conversion doth not consist in putting away great and outward sins only, but in descending ...
JOHANN ARNDT
My working life has always been wrapped up in doing my job to the best of my abilities and doing the...
JOHANN LAMONT
There is a danger of Scottish politics being between two sets of dinosaurs... the Nationalists who c...
JOHANN LAMONT
We have a government that boasts about free education. Those of us who have scratched below the surf...
JOHANN LAMONT
Social injustice is what puts Scotland at its greatest disadvantage, and restoring the 50p tax rate ...
JOHANN LAMONT
He who negates present society, and seeks social conditions based on the sharing of property, is a r...
JOHANN MOST
Trends carry on forever, until they stop. I want to be around after things come to a standstill. As ...
JOHANN RUPERT
I don't want to start producing dressing gowns and cuff links with the Purdey name stamped on th...
JOHANN RUPERT
We won't enshrine the Tories' policies in Scotland. We won't run away from the Tories bu...
JOHANN LAMONT
Professor Peter Cohen, a friend of Bruce’s, writes that we should stop using the word “addiction...
JOHANN HARI
Professor Jeffrey Miron17 of Harvard University has shown that the murder rate has dramatically incr...
JOHANN HARI
Don't speak evil of someone if you don't know for certain, and if you do know ask yourself, ...
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
By philosophy the mind of man comes to itself, and from henceforth rests on itself without foreign a...
JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE
He is not dead who departs from life with a high and noble fame; but he is dead, even while living, ...
JOHANN LUDWIG TIECK
People should always have something which they prefer to life.
JOHANN G. SEUME
Everything is vain and tortures the spirit instead of calming and satisfying it.
JOHANN GEORG HAMANN
By mere burial man arrives not at bliss; and in the future life, throughout its whole infinite range...
JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Music is the key to the female heart.
JOHANN G. SEUME
Many people take no care of their money till they come nearly to the end of it, and others do just t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
He knows very little of mankind who expects, by any facts or reasoning, to convince a determined par...
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
When a wife has a good husband it is easily seen in her face.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Comedians are not usually actors, but imitations of actors.
JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN
Life is the childhood of our immortality.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Be not the fourth friend of him who had three before and lost them.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
We are shaped and fashioned by what whom we love.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
If I love you, what business is it of yours?
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unp...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
That is the true season of love; when we believe that we alone can love, that no one could ever have...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The artist must conceive with warmth yet execute with coolness.
JOHANN JOACHIM WINCKELMANN
Many good qualities are not sufficient to balance a single want -- the want of money.
JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN
The jealous are possessed by a mad devil and a dull spirit at the same time.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Full surely there is a blessedness beyond the grave for those who have already entered on it here, a...
JOHANN GOTTLIEB FICHTE
Act well at the moment, and you have performed a good action for all eternity.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
He who has no taste for order, will be often wrong in his judgment, and seldom considerate or consci...
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Fresh activity is the only means of overcoming adversity.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Before you can do something you must first be something.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
How shall we learn to know ourselves? By reflection? Never; but only through action. Strive to do th...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The deed is everything, the glory is naught.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Then indecision brings its own delays, And days are lost lamenting o'er lost days. Are you in earnes...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Thinking is easy, acting is difficult, and to put one's thoughts into action is the most difficult t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
When all is said the greatest action is to limit and isolate one's self.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Your actions, and your action alone, determines your worth.
JOHANN G. FICHTE
Death is a commingling of eternity with time; in the death of a good man, eternity is seen looking t...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
A useless life is an early death.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Unity and simplicity are the two true sources of beauty.
JOHANN JOACHIM WINCKELMANN
If any man wishes to write a clear style, let him first be clear in his thoughts.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Every author in some degree portrays himself in his works, even if it be against his will.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
He who does not expect a million readers should not write a line.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
A creation of importance can only be produced when its author isolates himself, it is a child of sol...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
If the mass of people hesitate to act, strike with swiftly and with boldness, the brave heart that u...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Airs of importance are the credentials of impotence.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
What is not started today is never finished tomorrow.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Since Time is not a person we can overtake when he is gone, let us honor him with mirth and cheerful...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
We usually lose today, because there has been a yesterday, and tomorrow is coming.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Nothing is worth more than this day. You cannot relive yesterday. Tomorrow is still beyond your reac...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
If you treat an individual... as if he were what he ought to be and could be, he will become what he...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Napoleon for the sake of a good name broke in pieces half the world.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Every man has enough power left to carry out that of which he is convinced.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Music is an agreeable harmony for the honor of God and the permissible delights of the soul.
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Girls we love for what they are; men for what they promise to be.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
There are three classes of men; the retrograde, the stationary and the progressive.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
The world is for thousands a freak show; the images flicker past and vanish; the impressions remain ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The effects of good music are not just because it's new; on the contrary music strikes us more the m...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
A moral lesson is better expressed in short sayings than in long discourse.
JOHANN GEORG ZIMMERMANN
The great rule of moral conduct is next to God, respect time.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
My present post amounts to about 700 thaler, and when there are rather more funerals than usual, the...
JOHANN SEBASTIAN BACH
Certain defects are necessary for the existence of individuality.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
A clever man commits no minor blunders.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The best fortune that can fall to a man is that which corrects his defects and makes up for his fail...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The human mind will not be confined to any limits.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Our passion are the true phoenixes; when the old one is burnt out, a new one rises from its ashes.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Passions are vices or virtues to their highest powers.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
He submits to be seen through a microscope, who suffers himself to be caught in a fit of passion.
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
The right man is the one that seizes the moment.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
No two men see the world exactly alike, and different temperaments will apply in different ways a pr...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The unnatural, that too is natural.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Nature understands no jesting. She is always true, always serious, always severe. She is always righ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
In nature we never see anything isolated, but everything in connection with something else which is ...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Nature goes her own way and all that to us seems an exception is really according to order.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
Treat people as if they were what they ought to be and you help them to become what they are capable...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
He is incapable of truly good action who finds not a pleasure in contemplating the good actions of o...
JOHANN KASPAR LAVATER
Objects in pictures should so be arranged as by their very position to tell their own story.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
The philosopher must station themselves in the middle.
JOHANN VON GOETHE
I will not be as those who spend the day in complaining of headache, and the night in drinking the w...
JOHANN VON GOETHE
To make converts is the natural ambition of everyone.
JOHANN VON GOETHE