Moltmann Theology Quotes & Sayings

Well, first I would ask them if they had read the Bible; then I would ask them if they had understood it. — Jurgen Moltmann

The freedom to talk with God and of God is being opened by God's joy. It cannot be forced. For true awareness cannot be coercive; it does not come about by either authoritarian pressure or the force of logic. It presupposes liberty. Being aware of God is an art and
if the term may be permitted
a noble game. — Jurgen Moltmann

The dark monsters out there would suck me up when night came on, and they would carry me far across the sea and through strange lands where no humans lived. — Knut Hamsun

[Christian theology] awakens pain over the present internal and external enslavements of human beings — Jurgen Moltmann

You're wrong, Mama. The world's beautiful, but you're so busy being disappointed in everything you don't see it!! — Beth Hoffman

It wasn't that funny, but I laughed. There wouldn't be much laughter in the world if people didn't like each other, because there sure as shit aren't that many good jokes. — John Barnes

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.
~ Theology of Play, p.33 — Jurgen Moltmann

The CIA agent looked more dead than alive. Alex wondered if he had been hit, but there was no sign of any blood. Perhaps he was in shock. — Anthony Horowitz

If I have a theological virtue, it is curiosity or inquisitiveness. — Jurgen Moltmann

Unsuccessful people get up whenever they feel like it and the first thing they do is watch television, read the paper, or check email. The rest of the day is pretty much 50% below maximum performance. — Brian Tracy

I'm not one of those girls who can think, 'Right, I'll put a scarf with that and a little brooch there and maybe a vintage jacket.' I'm so impressed with girls who look terrific in a little thing they picked up at the local charity shop. I just look scruffy when I try to do vintage. — Sophie Winkleman

Girl surrounded by flowers
Technicolor kiss
For all the night's lengthy hours
I'll miss ... — Tessa Gratton

Now I saw his lifeless state. And that there was no longer any difference between what once had been my father and the table he was lying on, or the floor on which the table stood, or the wall socket beneath the window, or the cable running to the lamp beside him. For humans are merely one form among many, which the world produces over and over again, not only in everything that lives but also in everything that does not live, drawn in sand, stone, and water. And death, which I have always regarded as the greatest dimension of life, dark, compelling, was no more than a pipe that springs a leak, a branch that cracks in the wind, a jacket that slips off a clothes hanger and falls to the floor. — Karl Ove Knausgard

This is still the strangest thing in all man's travelling, that he should carry about with him incongruous memories. — Robert Louis Stevenson