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Surely, in the light of history, it is more intelligent to hope rather than to fear, to try rather than not to try. For one thing we know beyond all doubt: Nothing has ever been achieved by the person who says, “It can’t be done.” – Eleanor Roosevelt.
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Facing ecological ruination, we need a deep conversion, not away from the Earth toward God as the traditional model would have it, but a conversion toward the Earth, in love with a God who loves the Earth. This conversion involves numerous turnings at once… Intellectually… Emotionally… Practically…
- Elizabeth Johnson. Human Development Magazine, Winter 2016, “Ecology: Conversion to the Earth,” p.43.
We, all of us, are being called to do something unprecedented. We are being called to think about “everything that is,” for we now know that everything is interrelated and that the well-being of each is connected to the well-being of the whole. This suggests a “planetary agenda” for all the religions, all the various fields of expertise. - Sally McFague
God will bring people and events into our lives and whatever we may think about them, they are designed for the evolution of [God’s] life in us.
- Thomas Keating
Hope is not blind optimism. It's not ignoring the enormity of the task ahead or the roadblocks that stand in our path. It's not sitting on the sidelines or shirking from a fight. Hope is that thing inside us that insists, despite all evidence to the contrary, that something better awaits us if we have the courage to reach for it, and to work for it, and to fight for it. Hope is the belief that destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by the men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.
- Barack Obama
