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> [“The hope of a future in Christ is a hope that does not lean on present and available ability, some power-pack of recovery. An act of the properly potential may restore, satisfy, and complete, but it will never break the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-keen/the-hope-of-a-future-in-christ-is-a-hope-that-does-not-lean-on/)

[Craig Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-keen/)

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## More by Craig Keen

> [“The eucharist relativizes every leader.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-keen/the-eucharist-relativizes-every-leader/)

[Craig Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-keen/)

> [“The hope of a future in Christ is a hope that does not lean on present and available ability, some power-pack of recovery. An…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-keen/the-hope-of-a-future-in-christ-is-a-hope-that-does-not-lean-on/)

[Craig Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-keen/)

> [“The thinking church is the acting church. Yet also the acting church is the thinking church.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-keen/the-thinking-church-is-the-acting-church-yet-also-the-acting-church/)

[Craig Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-keen/)

> [“The anguish of Jesus in Gethsemane and on Golgatha is the anguish of Emmanuel, i.e., our anguish.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-keen/the-anguish-of-jesus-in-gethsemane-and-on-golgatha-is-the-anguish-of/)

[Craig Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-keen/)

> [“The forsakenness of the Son is the forsakenness of all who die...”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-keen/the-forsakenness-of-the-son-is-the-forsakenness-of-all-who-die/)

[Craig Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-keen/)

> [“There may be no English word as bent and broken by casual misuse, or drained of blood by idealizing admirers and apologists, or grossly…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-keen/there-may-be-no-english-word-as-bent-and-broken-by-casual-misuse-or/)

[Craig Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-keen/)

> [“Memory is for what is hoped; hope is for what is remembered.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-keen/memory-is-for-what-is-hoped-hope-is-for-what-is-remembered/)

[Craig Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-keen/)

> [“...it is for me in the flesh to acknowledge that Jesus Christ was a letter written in blood to the lost, weak, and forsaken…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-keen/it-is-for-me-in-the-flesh-to-acknowledge-that-jesus-christ-was-a/)

[Craig Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-keen/)

> [“...theology waits as it works. It waits for its lungs again to be filled. Without the renewing breath of the Spirit it cannot speak.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-keen/theology-waits-as-it-works-it-waits-for-its-lungs-again-to-be-filled/)

[Craig Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-keen/)

> [“The passion of Jesus is lonely only as all our deaths are lonely. He is with us in the loneliness of death, too. And…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-keen/the-passion-of-jesus-is-lonely-only-as-all-our-deaths-are-lonely-he/)

[Craig Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-keen/)

> [“The theologian remembers for the sake of hope.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-keen/the-theologian-remembers-for-the-sake-of-hope/)

[Craig Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-keen/)

> [“Grace comes particularly where calculation has come to an end.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-keen/grace-comes-particularly-where-calculation-has-come-to-an-end/)

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> [“And yet a dream of God--THIS God--is no ordinary dream, nor night terror... It is an apocalyptic vision. As such it makes manifest what…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/craig-keen/and-yet-a-dream-of-god-this-god-is-no-ordinary-dream-nor-night-terror/)

[Craig Keen](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/craig-keen/)

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