Quotes about Hope

You do not have to see the sun to know that it is still shining.

As my father, Saint Francis, put it, "If you have once faced the great death, the second death can do you no harm.

Our full "Christ Option"—and it is indeed a free choice to jump on board—offers us so much that is both good and new—a God who is in total solidarity with all of us at every stage of the journey, and who will get us all to our destination together in love.

If the universe is "Christened" from the very beginning, then of course it can never die forever. Resurrection is just incarnation taken to its logical conclusion. If God inhabits matter, then we can naturally believe in the "resurrection" of the body. Most simply said, nothing truly good can die!

All who hold any kind of unexplainable hope believe in resurrection, whether they are formal Christians or not, and even if they don't believe Jesus was physically raised from the dead.

Trust the process.

salvation is sin turned on its head and used in our favor.

God protects us into and through death, just as the Father did with Jesus.

Faith is simply to trust the real, and to trust that God is found within it—even before we change it.

The Holy Spirit is always entirely for us, more than we are for ourselves, it seems. She speaks in our favor against the negative voices that judge and condemn us. This gives us all such hope—now we do not have to do life all by ourselves, or even do life perfectly "right.

The Gospel is not a fire insurance policy for the next world, but a life assurance policy for this world.

Be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing. —T.S. ELIOT, "East Coker" from the Four Quartets