There are various names for this 'Spirit of Life' because there are various life experiences.

The present time of believers is no longer determined by the past. It takes its definition from the future.

As long as hope does not embrace and transform the thought and action of men, it remains topsy-turvy and ineffective.

That is why faith, wherever it develops into hope, causes not rest but unrest, not patience but impatience.... Those who hope in Christ can no longer put up with reality as it is.

The knowledge of the cross brings a conflict of interest between God who has become man and man who wishes to become God.

Hope is lived when it comes alive, when we go outside of ourselves and, in joy and pain take part in the lives of others.

Believing in the resurrection does not just mean assenting to a dogma and noting a historical fact. It means participating in this creative act of God’s … Resurrection is not a consoling opium, soothing us with the promise of a better world in the hereafter. It is the energy for a rebirth of this life. The hope doesn’t point to another world. It is focused on the redemption of this one.