“As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.” MenLongDoeActionRemainsEmbraceThoughts And ActionsTopsy Turvy Author:Jürgen Moltmann
“The motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers and the Fathers of the church, knowing meant something different: it meant knowing in wonder. By knowing or perceiving one participates in the life of the other. Here knowing does not transform the counterpart into the property of the knower; the knower does not appropriate what he knows. On the contrary, he is transformed through sympathy, becoming a participant in what he perceives.” KnowsDoeDifferentReasonDesireFatherChurchWonderKnowingModernBecomingPropertyPhilosopherContraryConquerPerceiveGreekMotiveAppropriateTransformedParticipantsCounterpartsGreek Philosopher Author:Jürgen Moltmann
“That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. It does not calm the unquiet heart, but is itself this unquiet heart in man. Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is, but begin to suffer under it, to contradict it. Peace with God means conflict with the world, for the goad of the promised future stabs inexorably into the flesh of every unfulfilled present.” MenWorldHeartMeanDoeRealitySufferingCausesChristConflictCalmFleshImpatienceUnrestPeace With GodHope In Christ Author:Jürgen Moltmann
“Believing in the resurrection does not just mean assenting to a dogma and noting a historical fact. It means participating in this creative act of God’s … Resurrection is not a consoling opium, soothing us with the promise of a better world in the hereafter. It is the energy for a rebirth of this life. The hope doesn’t point to another world. It is focused on the redemption of this one.” WorldBelieveMeanDoeFactsEnergyCreativePromiseHistoricalFocusedRedemptionThis LifeResurrectionDogmaRebirthHereafterAnother WorldParticipatingSoothingOpiumConsolingHistorical Facts Author:Jürgen Moltmann
“No where else in Christianity does the terrible or heroic name of Armageddon play such role as in America. Not even in the Revelation of John.” DoePlayAmericaNamesChristianityRolesTerribleRevelationsHeroicArmageddon Author:Jürgen Moltmann
“Christian hope does not promise successful days to the rich and the strong, but resurrection and life to those who must exist in the shadows of death. Success is no name of God. Righteousness is.” DoeChristianNamesStrongSuccessfulRichPromiseShadowRighteousnessResurrectionChristian HopeShadow Of DeathSuccessful Day Author:Jürgen Moltmann