Romance is overrated: it lasts but a second; marital quarrels a lifetime.

Only one who takes over his own life history can see in it the realization of his self. Responsibility to take over one's own biography means to get clear about who one wants to be.

The new is preceded by the destruction of the old, that which has become guilty, and not out of the possebilities which we possess, but in the impossible situation which confronts us, that the new shows itself as God's creative act. God's new reality is always like a novum ex nihilo. When all hopes have died, there comes the wave of the future like a spirit of resurrection into the dead bones (Ezek. 37), creating hope against hope.

Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here.

For resurrection faith means courage to revolt against the "covenant with death" (Isa. 28:15), it means hope for the victory of life which shall swallow up and conquer life-devouring death. ~ p.14

Al Qaida tötete im gesamten Westen, in Amerika und Europa, in den letzten 14 Jahren über 3300 Menschen. Bush jr. jedoch allein durch den Afghanistan- und Irakkrieg mindestens 600 000 Menschen. Im Irak in einem überwiegend auf Lügen aufgebauten völkerrechtswidrigen Krieg. Ist das kein Terrorismus?