"Without Easter, Good Friday would have no meaning. Without Easter, there would be no hope that suffering and abandonment might be tolerable. But with Easter, a way out becomes visible for human sorrows, an absolute future: more than a hope, a divine expectation."

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Source : Hans Von Balthasar, Hans Urs von Balthasar, Adrienne von Speyr (2010). “To the Heart of the Mystery of Redemption”, p.39, Ignatius Press

Hans Urs von Balthasar

#Friday Quotes #Easter Quotes #Expectations Quotes

“Champagne... the wine of kings, the king of wines”
“This game is so elusive. You try to maintain the peaks and level up the valleys.”
“Government does not have magic powers. In fact, the opposite is true; it is the least effective agency invented by man.”
“My mom was in education, and I remember reading in one of her books about multiple intelligences - this whole theory about how there are all these different ways you can be intelligent, like eight or 10 of them or something. And one of them is emotional.”
“When life knocks you down you have two choices- stay down or get up.”
“When you doubt your powers, you power your doubts”
“I have a faithful joy and a joy that is lost. One is like a rose, the other, a thorn. The one that was stolen I have not lost.”

Source : Gabriela Mistral, Doris Dana (1971). “Selected poems of Gabriela Mistral”, Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
“Confidence is a habit that can be developed by acting as if you already had the confidence you desire to have.”

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