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.
When pain is unbearable it destroys us; when it does not it is bearable.
When men search for God with their bodily eyes they find Him nowhere, for He is invisible. But for those who ponder in the Spirit He is present everywhere. He is in all, yet beyond all.
Man often becomes what he believes himself to be.
With about a dozen assorted ongoing conflicts in the news every day, and with the stories becoming more horrific, the level of sadness becomes unbearable. And what becomes of our planet when that sadness becomes apathy? Because we feel helpless. And we turn our heads and turn the page.
It is the eve of St. George's Day. Do you not know that tonight, when the clock strikes midnight, all the evil things in the world will have full sway?
You are done for - a living dead man - not when you stop loving but stop hating. Hatred preserves: in it, in its chemistry, resides the mystery of life.
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