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“[Faith] sees in the resurrection of Christ not the eternity of heaven, but the future of the very earth on which his cross stands. It sees in him the future of the very humanity for which he died. That is why it finds the cross the hope of the earth.”
― Jürgen Moltmann, Theology of Hope: On the Ground and the Implications of a Christian Eschatology

“To be alive at all is to have scars.”
― John Steinbeck, The Winter of Our Discontent

“Our Lord has written the promise of resurrection, not in books alone, but in every leaf in springtime.”
― Martin Luther

“There are two kinds of prosperity gospels. One promises personal health, wealth, and happiness. Another promises social transformation. In both versions, the results are up to us. We bring God’s kingdom to earth, either to ourselves or to society, by following certain spiritual laws or moral and political agendas. Both forget that salvation comes from above, as a gift of God. Both forget that because we are baptized into Christ, the pattern of our lives is suffering leading to glory in that cataclysmic revolution that Christ will bring when he returns. Both miss the point that our lives and the world as they are now are not as good as it gets. We do not have our best life or world now.”
― Michael S. Horton, Ordinary: Sustainable Faith in a Radical, Restless World