64 Quotes by Jurgen Moltmann

Hope is lived when it comes alive, when we go outside of ourselves and, in joy and pain take part in the lives of others.

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

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.

That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. It does not calm the unquiet heart, but is itself this unquiet heart in man. Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is, but begin to suffer under it, to contradict it. Peace with God means conflict with the world, for the goad of the promised future stabs inexorably into the flesh of every unfulfilled present.

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

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.

The church’s final word is not ‘church’ but the glory of the Father and the Son in the Spirit of liberty.

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

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.