"Christian hope is the power of resurrection from life's failures and defeats. It is the power of life's rebirth out of the shadows of death. It is the power for the new beginning at the point where guilt has made life impossible. The Christian hope is all these things because it is spirit from Spirit of the resurrection of the betrayed, maltreated, and forsaken Christ. Through his divine raising from the dead, Christ's hopeless end became his true beginning. If we remember that, we shall not give ourselves up, but shall expect that in every end a new beginning lies hidden. Yet we shall only become capable of new beginnings if we are prepared to let go of the things that torment us, and the things we lack."
- Jurgen Moltmann
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