Quotes from 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.
- Jurgen Moltmann
God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.
- Jurgen Moltmann
Jesus' healings are not supernatural miracles in a natural world. They are the only truly 'natural' things in a world that is unnatural, demonized and wounded.
- Jurgen Moltmann
The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers.
- Jurgen Moltmann
Well, first I would ask them if they had read the Bible; then I would ask them if they had understood it.
- Jurgen Moltmann
As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.
- Jurgen Moltmann
That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience.... Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is.
- Jurgen Moltmann
God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.
- Jurgen Moltmann
It is only when human beings see themselves simply as human beings, no longer as gods, that they are in a position to perceive the wholly other nature of God.
- 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.
- Jurgen Moltmann
To reinvent your own country you need a great audacity of hope.
- Jurgen Moltmann
God is not only a divine person who we can address in prayer, but also a wide living space We human beings are giving each other space for living when we meet each other in love and friendship.
- Jurgen Moltmann