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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"What you are is God's gift to you; what you become is your gift to God."

- Hans urs von Balthasar

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"It is to the Cross that the Christian is challenged to follow his Master: no path of redemption can make a detour around it."

- Hans urs von Balthasar

Faith

"What you are is God’s gift to you, what you become is your gift to God."

- Hans urs von Balthasar

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"What you are is God’s gift to you. What you become is your gift to God."

- Hans urs von Balthasar

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"Happiness is possible even in the midst of darkness."

- Beauty and the Beast

Hope

"No one is beyond redemption."

- Beauty and the Beast

Hope

"You will … hear us declare with Moroni that hope is essential if we are to ‘receive [the] inheritance [God] hast prepared [for us]’ [Ether 12:32]. We want you to claim that inheritance as sons and daughters of a king. To do that, we must realize that hope is not just the message and manner of the naturally optimistic; it is the privilege of everyone who believes."

- Elder Jeffrey R. Holland

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"Keep a little fire burning; however small, however hidden."

- Cormac McCarthy

Hope

"Light tomorrow with today."

- Elizabeth Barrett Browning

Hope