Jurgen Moltmann Quotations

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.

Americans as no one else in the Old World are looking ahead and are future-minded without the limitations of traditions and can look ahead without the burdens of the past.

. . . if we have children. When they are just born we do everything for them. We are omnipotent, they are completely dependent on us, but then when they grow up you must take back your influence on them, to give them freedom.

Despair can be like an iron band constricting the heart.

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

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

The turn from this end [despair] to a new beginning came from three things. A blooming cherry tree, the unexpected kindness of Scottish workers and their families, and the Bible.

Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.

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

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