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.
Christian hope does not promise successful days to the rich and the strong, but resurrection and life to those who must exist in the shadows of death… - Jürgen Moltmann
Christian hope does not promise successful days to the rich and the strong, but resurrection and life to those who must exist in the shadows of death…
- Jürgen Moltmann
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. - Jürgen Moltmann
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.
That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. It does not calm the unquiet heart, but i… - Jürgen Moltmann
That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. It does not calm the unquiet heart, but i…
God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him. - Jürgen Moltmann
God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.
The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers. - Jürgen Moltmann
The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers.
God heals the sicknesses and the griefs by making the sicknesses and the griefs his suffering and his grief. In the image of the crucified God the si… - Jürgen Moltmann
God heals the sicknesses and the griefs by making the sicknesses and the griefs his suffering and his grief. In the image of the crucified God the si…
Totally without hope, one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. - Jürgen Moltmann
Totally without hope, one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live.
Jesus' healings are not supernatural miracles in a natural world. They are the only truly 'natural' things in a world that is unnatural, demonized an… - Jürgen Moltmann
Jesus' healings are not supernatural miracles in a natural world. They are the only truly 'natural' things in a world that is unnatural, demonized an…
Passion is loving something enough to suffer for it. - Jürgen Moltmann
Passion is loving something enough to suffer for it.
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