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

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

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.

I am inexpressibly grateful that the Lord of my life has granted to me in such abundance these opportunities to take part in the life of his ecclesia and to bear witness to the Living Christ in so many places and in so many ways.

Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.