Hope . . . is one of the ways in which what is merely future and potential is made vividly present and actual to us. Hope is the positive, as anxiety is the negative, mode of awaiting the future.

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life.

Hope . . . is one of the ways in which what is merely future and potential is made vividly present and actual to us. Hope is the positive, as anxiety is the negative, mode of awaiting the future.

The Church exists by mission, just as a fire exists by burning. Where there is no mission there is no Church; and where there is neither Church nor mission, there is no faith.

The Revelation of God is not a book or a doctrine, but a living Person.

Faith is obedience, nothing else.

Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.