The 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 MoltmannAs long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.
Jürgen MoltmannPersonal, 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.
Jürgen MoltmannThe 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.
Jürgen Moltmann