Despair can be like an iron band constricting the heart.

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.

Passion is loving something enough to suffer for it.

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

Despair can be like an iron band constricting the heart.

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.

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.