A change in external circumstances without inner renewal is a materialist's illusion, as though man were only a product of his social circumstance and nothing else. (Jürgen Moltmann)

A change in external circumstances without inner renewal is a materialist's illusion, as though man were only a product of his social circumstance and nothing else.

Jürgen Moltmann

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