In Christian terms, evangelization and humanization are not alternatives. Nor are the vertical dimension of faith and the horizontal dimension of love for ones neighbor and political change. Jürgen Moltmann More Quotes by Jürgen Moltmann More Quotes From Jürgen Moltmann 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. Jürgen Moltmann creativitymeanpast 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. Jürgen Moltmann paineastermen There were two different expectations in this land of the future. On the one hand the the optimistic belief in an unending progress with millenarianistic overtones and on the other hand the doomsday expectation of the final battle of Armageddon. Both are perspectives are uniquely American and both are inter-related. Jürgen Moltmann optimisticlandhands God is not only a divine person who we can address in prayer, but also a wide living space We human beings are giving each other space for living when we meet each other in love and friendship. Jürgen Moltmann spaceprayergiving As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective. Jürgen Moltmann doemenlong . . . if we have children. When they are just born we do everything for them. We are omnipotent, they are completely dependent on us, but then when they grow up you must take back your influence on them, to give them freedom. Jürgen Moltmann growing-upwisdomchildren
