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Hope For The Hopeless

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"As long as matters are really hopeful,HopeA-Ray-of-Sunshine hope is a mere flattery or platitude: it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength at all.  Like all the Christian virtues, it is as unreasonable as it is indispensable." -G.K. Chesterton

For Reflection: Ponder this quote from G.K.Chesterton. How does it line up with the Scripture passages presented in the last couple of days?  This quote also suggests that the virtue of hope has its own logic.  What do you think would be the foundational premise upon which hope rests?  See tomorrow's Grace Lines for one possible premise.

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Divine Mercy in My Soul: Diary of St Faustinab1517

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Introduction  Page xv

Pressed on, however by a vision, of the suffering Christ and by the words of His reproach: "How long shall I put up with you and how long will you keep putting me off?"(Diary 9), she began to search for a convent to join. She knocked on many a convent door, but nowhere was she accepted.

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