Jürgen Moltmann

That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience.... Those who hope in…

— Jürgen Moltmann

To reinvent your own country you need a great audacity of hope.

— Jürgen Moltmann

“Here the crucified Christ was seen less as the sacrifice which God creates to reconcile the world to himself, and more as…

— Jurgen Moltmann

God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.

— Jürgen Moltmann

“When the fear of death leaves us, the destructive craving for life leaves us too. We can then restrict our desires and…

— Jürgen Moltmann

“[Faith] sees in the resurrection of Christ not the eternity of heaven, but the future of the very earth on which his…

— Jürgen Moltmann

No where else in Christianity does the terrible or heroic name of Armageddon play such role as in America. Not even in…

— Jürgen Moltmann

Despair can be like an iron band constricting the heart.

— Jürgen Moltmann

“The problem of modern man is no longer so much how he can live with gods and demons, but how he can…

— Jürgen Moltmann

“with Christ in faith a wholly new life begins. It is not a restored life, and it is not a rejuvenated life…

— Jürgen Moltmann

“It can be summed up by saying that suffering is overcome by suffering, and wounds are healed by wounds. For the suffering…

— Jurgen Moltmann

“When the crucified Jesus is called "the image of the invisible God," the meaning is that THIS is God, and God is…

— Jürgen Moltmann

“But the ultimate reason for our hope is not to be found at all in what we want, wish for and wait…

— Jürgen Moltmann

Even the disciples of Jesus all fled from their master's cross. Christians who do not have the feeling that they must flee…

— Jürgen Moltmann

“Just as they were formulated to express Jewish or Greek reasons for faith in Jesus, it is possible on principle to formulate…

— Jürgen Moltmann

Christian hope does not promise successful days to the rich and the strong, but resurrection and life to those who must exist…

— Jürgen Moltmann

“God became man that dehumanized men might become true men. We become true men in the community of the incarnate, the suffering…

— Jürgen Moltmann

In Christian terms, evangelization and humanization are not alternatives. Nor are the vertical dimension of faith and the horizontal dimension of love…

— Jürgen Moltmann

A change in external circumstances without inner renewal is a materialist's illusion, as though man were only a product of his social…

— Jurgen Moltmann

“When God becomes man in Jesus of Nazareth, he not only enters into the finitude of man, but in his death on…

— Jürgen Moltmann

It is only when human beings see themselves simply as human beings, no longer as gods, that they are in a position…

— Jürgen Moltmann

“A dead man cannot forgive sins. The gospel, as the present forgiveness of sins, assumes the new, divine, eschatological life of the…

— Jürgen Moltmann

There were two different expectations in this land of the future. On the one hand the the optimistic belief in an unending…

— Jürgen Moltmann

“But to follow Jesus is not to imitate him, for following him does not mean becoming a Jesus oneself. Nor does it…

— Jurgen Moltmann

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

— Jürgen Moltmann