“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
“With every righteous action, we prepare the way for the New Earth on which righteousness will dwell. And bringing justice to those who suffer violence means to bring the light of God's future to them.” WayMeanLightActionEarthSufferingJusticeViolenceRighteousnessRighteousNew Earth Author:Jürgen Moltmann
“As time goes on we become old, the future contracts, the past expands...But by future we don't just mean the years ahead; we always mean as well the plenitude of possibilities which challenge our creativity...In confrontation with the future we can become young if we accept the future's challenges.” IfsYearsWellsMeanPastYoungChallengesAcceptingCreativityPossibilityGoes OnContractsConfrontationTime Goes OnPlenitude Author:Jürgen Moltmann