. . . 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.
Jürgen MoltmannNo 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.
Jürgen MoltmannThe present time of believers is no longer determined by the past. It takes its definition from the future.
Jürgen MoltmannThat 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.
Jürgen MoltmannThe motive that impels modern reason to know must be described as the desire to conquer and dominate. For the Greek philosophers and the Fathers of the church, knowing meant something different: it meant knowing in wonder. By knowing or perceiving one participates in the life of the other. Here knowing does not transform the counterpart into the property of the knower; the knower does not appropriate what he knows. On the contrary, he is transformed through sympathy, becoming a participant in what he perceives.
Jürgen Moltmann