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“My eyes have seen Your salvation, Which You have prepared in the presence of all peoples.” LUKE 2:30–31 NASB
Morgan Harper Nichols • Honest Advent
Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do.
C. S. Lewis • Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis Signature Classics)
For to us a child is born, to us a son is given. ISAIAH 9:6
Morgan Harper Nichols • Honest Advent
Elijah fills a need for hope—and for justice.
Daniel C. Matt • Becoming Elijah: Prophet of Transformation (Jewish Lives)
To hope is to “borrow grace.” It is not naive optimism. Hope admits the truth of our vulnerability. It does not trust God to keep all bad things from happening. But it assumes that redemption, beauty, and goodness will be there for us, whatever lies ahead.