April 2025: Hope
Faith, hope and charity diffuse their divine movements into almost all of the soul’s faculties, both rational and sensitive, and in a holy way reduce and subject them to their just authority.
However, their special dwelling, their true natural abode, is in this supreme point of the soul.
Treatise on the Love of God I, 12
Since we expect to possess God by the help of God—setting our hearts in him, looking forward to him, by his grace—the virtue of hope leads always only to God …
Treatise on the love of God Book II, 16
Although we are miserable, we are not nearly so much so as God is merciful to those who want to love him and who have placed their hopes in him.
Letter 512 to Madame de la Fléchère, January 20, 1609
If you have firm trust in God, the success that comes to you will always be that which is most useful for you whether it appears good or bad in your private judgment.
Introduction to the Devout Life III,10
When human aid fails us, all is not wanting, for God takes over and takes care of us by Hi
special Providence.
Sermon for the 4th Sunday in Lent March 6, 1622
