As time goes on we become ...

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

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The truth of human freedom lies in the love that breaks down barriers.
 Jürgen Moltmann
As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.
 Jürgen Moltmann
With every righteous action, we prepare the way for the New Earth on which righteousness will dwell. And bringing justice to those who suffer violence means to bring the light of God's future to them.
 Jürgen Moltmann