Hope, the Opposite of Despair...




From several sources:

Man's way leads to a hopeless end, God's way leads to an endless hope.

Where there is life, there is hope.

GOD is the only ultimate hope we have.

I am not what I ought to be. I am not what I wish to be. I am not what I
      hope to be. It is only by the Grace of God that I am not what I was! 
 
The holy father is a person of hope.

The prophets are the ones who bring out Christianity's dimension of hope.
      They are the channels of access to what must still come to pass and,
      therefore, allowing us to go beyond time to attain what is essential and
      definitive. Pope Benedict XVI

There are other deaths besides bodily death. There is the death of the
     spirit, the death of hope, and the death of dreams.

The first commandment embraces the theological virtues of faith, hope,
     and charity.

 Faith is the root, hope is the stem, and love is the flower on a single
      plant. Peter Kreeft

An elder Cherokee native American was teaching his grandchildren about
      life. He said to them, "A fight is going on inside me...it is a terrible
      fight and it is between two wolves. One wolf represents fear, anger, envy,
      sorrow, regret, greed, arrogance, self-pity, guilt, resentment,
      inferiority, lies, false pride, superiority and ego.
      The other wolf stands for joy, peace, love, hope, sharing, serenity,
      humility, kindness, benevolence, friendship, empathy, generosity, truth,
      compassion and faith.
      This same fight is going on inside you, and inside every other person
      too." They thought about it for a minute and then one child asked his
      grandfather, "Which wolf will win?" The old Cherokee simply relied...
      "The one you feed."

Three things in life that you should never lose-
       1. Hope
       2. Peace
       3. Honesty

"I hope you have a nice trip 'til the sidewalk ends and Heaven begins'."
A quote from Father Dwyer.



2Corinthians 4:8-10
" We are troubled on every side, yet not distressed;
we are perplexed, but not in despair;
persecuted, but not forsaken;
cast down, but not destroyed;
Always bearing about in the body the dying of the Lord Jesus,
that the life also of Jesus might be made manifest in our body."



Compiled by Bob Stanley
March 20, 2008



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