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I want to defend and buoy hope – it’s a fragile, quirky thing, but it has the power to help us act in the face of finitude
Hope is vitalising. When it pulses, we aspire toward better futures and conspire with what we have and have been. In its absence, we often grow listless, even court despair. I thus want to defend hope, underscore what we gain i... See more
Hope is vitalising. When it pulses, we aspire toward better futures and conspire with what we have and have been. In its absence, we often grow listless, even court despair. I thus want to defend hope, underscore what we gain i... See more
John Lysaker • Our days are both rough and slippery. Hope brings traction | Psyche Ideas
The main message of Jesus, I believed, is that mercy trumps justice every time.
Paul Kalanithi • When Breath Becomes Air
It is a startling truth that how you see and what you see determines how and who you will
John O'Donohue • Anam Cara: 25th Anniversary Edition
Merold Westphal,
James K. A. Smith • The Nicene Option: An Incarnational Phenomenology
The dream of a Liberal (arts) education—which is the scaled, democratic form of the Keatsian ideal of negative capability—cannot hold up when liberalism itself is held to be suspect.