Faith, Hope, Love, and Truth

“Being and being Christian are an absolute unity for the believer. Trying to separate or even to delineate the two would be to give up living.

Faith enables Christian hope to be more than mere expectation and to become at every moment an immediate embodiment of love.

Only faith can keep what hope promises.

Christian hope is a vessel in which faith lives; love carries it.

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When the Lord communicates a truth to us, its truthfulness obviously lies not just in the means He uses to communicate it, but also in Him. In the same way, then, a truth that a believer draws on faith to communicate must be true both in him and in the Lord.

We must leave every moment to Providence; then we also know there is no such thing as ‘the meaningless’.

We can never fully abstract from our good works, because, no matter how small and imperfect they are, they come from God even before they are performed; we must thank Him for them and, once they are done, return them completely to Him and place them at His disposal.”

~Adrienne von Speyr