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Hope
 


Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure; and through the virtue of humility which accepts God’s mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness.

 
Encyclical Letter
'Deus Caritas Est'

 
 
 
Hope
 


Our firm hope is founded on the Resurrection of Jesus that brightens the whole of our earthly pilgrimage, including the human enigma of pain and death.

 
General Audience
St Peter's Square
15 April 2009

 
 
 
Hope
 


With God, even in difficult times or moments of crisis, there is always a horizon of hope: the Incarnation tells us that we are never alone, that God has come to humanity and that He accompanies us.

 
Shrine of Loreto
Loreto, Italy
4 October 2012

 
 
 
Hope
 


The Christian is a person of hope, even and especially in the face of the darkness that often exists in the world, not as a consequence of God’s plans but because of the wrong choices of man, because the Christian knows that the power of faith can move mountains, the Lord can brighten even the deepest darkness.

 
Homily at Vespers
Solemnity of Mary, Mother of God
Vatican Basilica
31 December 2012

 
 
 
Hope
 


Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure; and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness.

 
'Deus Caritas Est'
Encyclical Letter on God's Love

 
 
 
Hope
 


The Church is a place of hope because from her, the Word of God comes ever and anew, purifying us and showing us the path of faith.

 
Message to participants of
'Kirchentag' Ecumenical Event
Munich, Germany
15 May 2010

 
 
 
Hope
 


God is love, and the encounter with him is the only response to the restlessness of the human heart; a heart inhabited by hope, still perhaps obscure and unconscious in many of our contemporaries but which already today opens us Christians to the future, so much so that St Paul wrote that "in this hope we were saved" (Rom 8: 24).

 
General Audience
Paul VI Hall
Vatican City
27 February 2008

 
 
 
Hope
 


“A pure heart, create for me, O God” (Ps 50:12)
A pure heart, a new heart, is one which recognizes that, of itself, it is impotent and places itself in God’s hands so as to continue hoping in his promises.

 
Homily
Bicentennial Park
Silao, Guanajuato
Mexico
25 March 2012

 

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