Top 35 Jürgen Moltmann Quotes (2024 Update)

1. “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.”

— Jürgen Moltmann

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

— Jürgen Moltmann

3. “Passion is loving something enough to suffer for it.”

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4. “God heals the sicknesses and the griefs by making the sicknesses and the griefs his suffering and his grief. In the image of the crucified God the sick and dying can see themselves, because in them the crucified God recognizes himself.”

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5. “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.”

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

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7. “The theological foundation for Christian hope is the raising of the crucified Christ.”

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

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9. “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.”

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

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11. “To reinvent your own country you need a great audacity of hope.”

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12. “In Christian terms, evangelization and humanization are not alternatives. Nor are the vertical dimension of faith and the horizontal dimension of love for ones neighbor and political change.”

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13. “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.”

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14. “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.”

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15. “Personal, inner change without a change in circumstances and structures is an idealist illusion, as though man were only a soul and not a body as well.”

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16. “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.”

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17. “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.”

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

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19. “The present time of believers is no longer determined by the past. It takes its definition from the future.”

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

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21. “With every righteous action, we prepare the way for the New Earth on which righteousness will dwell. And bringing justice to those who suffer violence means to bring the light of God’s future to them.”

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22. “Jesus died crying out to God ‘My God, why hast thou forsaken me?’ All Christian theology and all Christian life is basically an answer to the question which Jesus asked as he died.”

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

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24. “Despair can be like an iron band constricting the heart.”

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25. “He who is of little faith looks for support and protection for his faith, because it is preyed upon by fear.”

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26. “Capitalism, racism and inhuman technocracy quietly develop in their own way. The causes of misery are no longer to be found in the inner attitudes of men, but have long been institutionalized.”

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27. “To suffer and to be rejected are not identical. Suffering can be celebrated and admired. It can arouse compassion. But to be rejected takes away the dignity from suffering and makes it dishonourable suffering. To suffer and be rejected signify the cross. To die on the cross means to suffer and to die as one who is an outcast and rejected. If those who follow Jesus are to take ‘their cross’ on themselves, they are taking on not only suffering and a bitter fate, but the suffering of rejection.”

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28. “Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.”

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29. “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.”

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30. “It can be summed up by saying that suffering is overcome by suffering, and wounds are healed by wounds. For the suffering in suffering is the lack of love, and the wounds in wounds are the abandonment, and the powerlessness in pain is unbelief. And therefore the suffering of abandonment is overcome by the suffering of love, which is not afraid of what is sick and ugly, but accepts it and takes it to itself in order to heal it. Through.”

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31. “In a civilization that glorifies success and happiness and is blind to the sufferings of others, people’s eyes can be opened to the truth if they remember that at the centre of the Christian faith stands an unsuccessful, tormented Christ, dying in forsakenness.”

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32. “Wisdom is an ethics of knowledge.”

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

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34. “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.”

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35. “In concrete terms, God is revealed in the cross of Christ who was abandoned by God. His grace is revealed in sinners. His righteousness is revealed in the unrighteous and in those without rights, and his gracious election in the damned. The.”

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36. “Here the crucified Christ was seen less as the sacrifice which God creates to reconcile the world to himself, and more as the exemplary path trodden by a righteous man suffering unjustly, leading to salvation. Fellowship.”

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