In the cross of Christ God is taking man dead-seriously so that he may open up for him the happy freedom of Easter. God takes upon himself the pain of negation and the God forsakenness of judgement to reconcile himself with his enemies and to give the godless fellowship with himself.

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

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.

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.

Passion is loving something enough to suffer for it.

The church's final word is not 'church' but the glory of the Father and the Son in the Spirit of liberty

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