“Even a purely moral act that has no hope of any immediate and visible political effect can gradually and indirectly, over time, gain in political significance.”
Tip: press → for another quote, C to copy, S to share.
Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility.
Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.
When a truth is not given complete freedom, freedom is not complete.
