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‘It is love that believes the resurrection’

Ludwig Wittgenstein

‘If the Good News of Christianity is anything new, it is this: that death has no hidden terror, has no mystery, is not something humans must fear. It is not the end of life, of the soul, of the person. Christ’s death on Calvary was not the central act of salvation, but his death and resurrection; it was the resurrection that completed his victory over sin and death’.

Fr Walter Ciszek SJ, ‘He Leadeth Me’

'Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one'.

St Teresa of Avila

'The Christian thinks any good he/she does comes from the Christ life inside them. They does not think God will love us because we are good, but that God will make us good because he loves us’.

C.S. Lewis, Mere Christianity

'It is hopeless to offer Christianity as a vaguely idealistic aspiration of a simple and consoling kind; it is, on the contrary, a hard, tough, exacting, and complex doctrine, steeped in a drastic and uncompromising realism. And it is fatal to imagine that everybody knows quite well what Christianity is and needs only a little encouragement to practice it.'

Dorothy Sayers

"Hope comes from love, because people always trust in those they love." 

St Catherine of Siena, Letter T352