Despair can be like an iron band constricting the heart.

Despair can be like an iron band constricting the heart.

The church's final word is not 'church' but the glory of the Father and the Son in the Spirit of liberty

God is not only a divine person who we can address in prayer, but also a wide living space We human beings are giving each other space for living when we meet each other in love and friendship.

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.

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.

To reinvent your own country you need a great audacity of hope.