Jürgen Moltmann

“Judgement immobilizes, only hopeful love leaves an opening for God's alternative future.”

— Jurgen Moltmann

That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. It does not calm…

— Jürgen Moltmann

Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.

— Jürgen Moltmann

. . . if we have children. When they are just born we do everything for them. We are omnipotent, they are…

— Jürgen Moltmann

God is not only a divine person who we can address in prayer, but also a wide living space We human beings…

— Jürgen Moltmann

“We may have fun, but we are in joy. In true joy, the ecstatic nature of human existence comes to expression. We…

— Jurgen Moltmann

“Thus the Eucharist, like the meals held by Jesus with ‘sinners and publicans’, must also be celebrated with the unrighteous, those who…

— Jurgen Moltmann

There are various names for this 'Spirit of Life' because there are various life experiences.

— Jürgen Moltmann

In the cross of Christ God is taking man dead-seriously so that he may open up for him the happy freedom of…

— Jürgen Moltmann

“For resurrection faith means courage to revolt against the "covenant with death" (Isa. 28:15), it means hope for the victory of life…

— Jürgen Moltmann

“The gift and the presence of the Holy Spirit is the greatest and most wonderful thing which we can experience - we…

— Jürgen Moltmann

“In the cross of Christ God is taking man dead-seriously so that he may open up for him the happy freedom of…

— Jürgen Moltmann

The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers.

— Jürgen Moltmann

“The longer I have lived with this new hope, the clearer it has become to me: our true hope in life doesn't…

— Jürgen Moltmann

“To suffer and to be rejected are not identical. Suffering can be celebrated and admired. It can arouse compassion. But to be…

— Jurgen Moltmann

“Our social and political tasks, if we take them seriously, loom larger than life. Yet infinite responsibility destroys a human being because…

— Jürgen Moltmann

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…

— Jürgen Moltmann

Jesus' healings are not supernatural miracles in a natural world. They are the only truly 'natural' things in a world that is…

— Jürgen Moltmann

God heals the sicknesses and the griefs by making the sicknesses and the griefs his suffering and his grief. In the image…

— Jürgen Moltmann

“The thought of death and life after death is ambivalent. It can deflect us from this life, with its pleasures and pains.…

— Jürgen Moltmann

With every righteous action, we prepare the way for the New Earth on which righteousness will dwell. And bringing justice to those…

— Jürgen Moltmann

“The one will triumph who first died for the victims then also for the executioners, and in so doing revealed a new…

— Jürgen Moltmann

“The friend standing next to me at the firing predictor was torn to pieces by the bomb that left me unscathed. That…

— Jürgen Moltmann

Totally without hope, one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live.

— Jürgen Moltmann

The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become…

— Jürgen Moltmann