Voices

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Hope

Jurgen Moltmann, Theology of Hope

Faith Christianity Human Flourishing Literature

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Faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience. It does not calm the unquiet heart, but is itself this unquiet heart in man. Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is, but begin to suffer under it, to contradict it.

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