64 Quotes by Jurgen Moltmann

Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.

The freedom to talk with God and of God is being opened by God's joy. It cannot be forced. For true awareness cannot be coercive; it does not come about by either authoritarian pressure or the force of logic. It presupposes liberty. Being aware of God is an art and--if the term may be permitted--a noble game.

Our social and political tasks, if we take them seriously, loom larger than life. Yet infinite responsibility destroys a human being because he is only a man and not god." ~ p.23

Well, first I would ask them if they had read the Bible; then I would ask them if they had understood it.

If I have a theological virtue, it is curiosity or inquisitiveness.

In the cross of Christ God is taking man dead-seriously so that he may open up for him the happy freedom of Easter. God takes upon himself the pain of negation and the God forsakenness of judgement to reconcile himself with his enemies and to give the godless fellowship with himself.~ Theology of Play, p.33

...the triune God will indwell the world in a divine way - the world will indwell God in a creaturely way.

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

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