QUOTATION: Hope

Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God’s mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness.

--Pope Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est, 39

QUOTATION: Hope

The first man was more blessed in paradise than any righteous man in this state of mortal frailty, as far as concerns the enjoyment of present good. But as for the hope of the future, any man in the extreme of bodily suffering is happier than the first-created, for it has been revealed to man with the certainty of truth—it is no mere opinion—that, free from all distresses, he will share with the angels the endless enjoyment of God Most High, whereas the first man, in all the bliss of paradise, had no certainty about his future.

--St. Augustine, City of God, Book XI, Chapter 12

QUOTATION: God Doesn't Lose

Remember this and never forget it: even if it should seem at times that everything is collapsing, nothing is collapsing at all, because God doesn’t lose battles.

--St. Josemaria Escriva

QUOTATION: Christian Hope

This is Christian hope: that the future is in God’s hands.

--Pope Francis

QUOTATION: Hope and Despair

It is not sinners, but the wicked who should despair; it is not the magnitude of one’s crime, but contempt of God that dashes one’s hopes.

--St. Peter Damian

QUOTATION: Salvation

Salvation is shown to faith, it is prepared for hope, but it is given only to charity. Faith points out the way to the land of promise as a pillar of fire, hope feeds us with its manna of sweetness, but charity actually introduces us to the Promised Land.

--St. Francis de Sales

QUOTATION: Hope

If everything were already known and assured to us, where would be room for our confidence in God? Now we have only the shadow of these things. Where would be room for hope, if we possess them already?

--St. Ignatius Loyola

QUOTATION: Hope

Hope has two beautiful daughters: their names are anger and courage. Anger that things are the way they are. Courage to make them the way they ought to be.

--St. Augustine

QUOTATION: Hope

In an age of hope men looked up at the night sky and saw “the heavens.” In an age of hopelessness they call it simply “space.”

--Peter Kreeft

QUOTATION: Hope

Even if the forces of darkness appear to prevail, those who believe in God know that evil and death do not have the final say. Christian hope is based on this truth; at this time our prayerful trust draws strength from it.

--Pope John Paul II