[cityonahill]

Having said that...

Here are some random quotes I like from an author I've been getting into lately:

"That is why 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...the goad of the promised future stabs inexorably into the flesh of every unfulfilled present...that we do not reconcile ourselves [with things as they are], that there is no pleasant harmony between us and reality, is due to our unquenchable hope."
- Jurgen Moltmann, Theology of Hope, pg. 21

"If faith thus depends on hope for its life, then the sin of unbelief is manifestly grounded in hopelessness. To be sure it is usually said that sin in its original form is man’s wanting to be as God. But that is only one side of sin. The other side of such pride is hopelessness, resignation, inertia and melancholy….Temptation then consists not so much in the titanic desire to be as God, but in weakness, timidity, weariness, not wanting to be what God requires of us."
-Jurgen Moltmann, Theology of Hope

If anyone is unaware of Moltmann's story, he was a German Nazi who came to Christ in a POW camp in Scotland after WW2...many of his writings really strike a chord with me...

Some label him as a heretic but what else is new? His book "the way of Jesus Christ" was awesome!