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.
Interpretation
This quote reflects on the presence of God in suffering and despair, as exemplified by Christ's own suffering on the cross.
Jrgen Moltmann's quote encapsulates the idea that God's presence is most profoundly understood in moments of deep suffering and abandonment. By referencing Christ's experience on the cross, Moltmann emphasizes that during our darkest times, such as the tragedies in Hamburg, we can find solace in the belief that God is with us in our pain and will continue to be present as we face the future, no matter the circumstances.
In practice
This quote could be shared during a memorial service to provide comfort to those grieving.
As time goes on we become old, the future contracts, the past expands...But by future we don't just mean the years ahead; we always mean as well the plenitude of possibilities which challenge our creativity...In confrontation with the future we can become young if we accept the future's challenges.
Even the disciples of Jesus all fled from their master's cross. Christians who do not have the feeling that they must flee the crucified Christ have probably not yet understood him in a sufficiently radical way.
Totally without hope, one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live.
The 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.
Imprisoned professors taught imprisoned students free theology.
It is only when human beings see themselves simply as human beings, no longer as gods, that they are in a position to perceive the wholly other nature of God.
Man's chief goal in life is still to become and stay human, and defend his achievements against the encroachment of nature.
[T]here is very little difference between one person and another, but what little difference ther eis, is very important.
When it appears that there is no choice, some form of illusion is operating.
Pleasure, so called, is the murderer of serious thought. This is the age of excessive amusement. Everybody craves for it, like a babe for its rattle!
Neither the sun nor death can be looked at steadily.
Sometimes she did not know what she feared, what she desired: whether she feared or desired what had been or what would be, and precisely what she desired, she did not know.
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