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.
Jürgen MoltmannThe knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.
Jürgen MoltmannHope 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 MoltmannChristian 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.
Jürgen MoltmannThat 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.
Jürgen Moltmann