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

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.

There were two different expectations in this land of the future. On the one hand the the optimistic belief in an unending progress with millenarianistic overtones and on the other hand the doomsday expectation of the final battle of Armageddon. Both are perspectives are uniquely American and both are inter-related.

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

. . . 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.

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