Quotes by Jürgen Moltmann

Jürgen Moltmann

. . . if we have children. When they are just born we do everything for them. We are omnipotent, they are completely dependent on us, but then when they grow up you must take back your influence on them, to give them freedom.

Children

Growing Up

Wisdom

Americans as no one else in the Old World are looking ahead and are future-minded without the limitations of traditions and can look ahead without the burdens of the past.

Looks

Past

World

As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.

Doe

Long

Men

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.

Creativity

Mean

Past

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.

Believe

Creative

Mean

Capitalism, racism and inhuman technocracy quietly develop in their own way. The causes of misery are no longer to be found in the inner attitudes of men, but have long been institutionalized.

Attitude

Long

Men

Christ’s own ‘God-forsaken-ness’ on the cross showed me where God is present where God had been present in those nights of deaths in the fire storms in Hamburg and where God would be present in my future whatever may come.

Fire

Night

Storm

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.

Christian

Strong

Successful

Despair can be like an iron band constricting the heart.

Despair

Heart

Iron

Even the disciples of Jesus all fled from their master’s cross. Christians who do not have the feeling that they must flee the crucified Christ have probably not yet understood him in a sufficiently radical way.

Christian

Feelings

Jesus

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Alternatives

America

Attitude

Audacity

Believe

Body

Causes

Cease

Children

Christian

Church

Conflict

Country

Creative

Creativity

Definitions

Despair

Determined

Doe

Easter

Enough

Faith

Father

Feelings

Fire

Giving

Greek

Grief

Growing Up

Hands

Healing

Heart

Inspirational

Iron

Jesus

Joy

Justice

Kindness

Knowing

Land

Laughing

Life Experience

Light

Long

Looks

Love

Mean

Men

Miracle

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Quotes by Jürgen Moltmann

Jürgen Moltmann

. . . if we have children. When they are just born we do everything for them. We are omnipotent, they are completely dependent on us, but then when they grow up you must take back your influence on them, to give them freedom.

Americans as no one else in the Old World are looking ahead and are future-minded without the limitations of traditions and can look ahead without the burdens of the past.

As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.

Capitalism, racism and inhuman technocracy quietly develop in their own way. The causes of misery are no longer to be found in the inner attitudes of men, but have long been institutionalized.

Christ’s own ‘God-forsaken-ness’ on the cross showed me where God is present where God had been present in those nights of deaths in the fire storms in Hamburg and where God would be present in my future whatever may come.

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.

Despair can be like an iron band constricting the heart.

Even the disciples of Jesus all fled from their master’s cross. Christians who do not have the feeling that they must flee the crucified Christ have probably not yet understood him in a sufficiently radical way.

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