Basil Hume quotes

“The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.”
-- Basil Hume

Source : Basil Hume (2001). “Cardinal Hume: A Spiritual Companion : Reflections Through the Year”, Paraclete Press (MA)

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“Death remains about the one certain fact in the lives of each one of us, and there will be suffering, sorrow, and sadness next week as there was last week.”
-- Basil Hume

Source : Basil Hume (2001). “Cardinal Hume: A Spiritual Companion : Reflections Through the Year”, Paraclete Press (MA)

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“Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.”
-- Basil Hume

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“Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person.”
-- Basil Hume

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“Christ shared our experience; he suffered as we suffer; he died as we shall die, and for forty days in the desert he underwent the struggle between good and evil.”
-- Basil Hume

Source : Basil Hume (2001). “Cardinal Hume: A Spiritual Companion : Reflections Through the Year”, Paraclete Press (MA)

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“From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses.”
-- Basil Hume

Source : Basil Hume (2002). “Searching for God”, p.233, Gracewing Publishing

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“Why God should want and need us is a mystery. But it is true: otherwise he would not have created us and life would ultimately have no meaning for us. It is good to remember that in God the is a constancy, a consistency of attitude which never changes, irrespective of what we are or how we act: he never changes in is wanting us or needing us.”
-- Basil Hume

Source : Basil Hume (2002). “Searching for God”, p.100, Gracewing Publishing

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“Soon after you're dead - we're not sure how long - but not long, you'll be united with the most ecstatic love you've ever known. As one of the best things in your life was human love, this will be love, but much more satisfying, and it will last forever.”
-- Basil Hume

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“We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.”
-- Basil Hume

Source : The Observer Review, 1995.

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“Just to be is a blessing. Just to live is holy.”

Source : Abraham Joshua Heschel (1997). “Moral Grandeur and Spiritual Audacity: Essays”, p.264, Macmillan

“Whatever man may stand, whatever he may do, to whatever he may apply his hand - in agriculture, in commerce, and in industry, or his mind, in the world of art, and science - he is, in whatsoever it may be, constantly standing before the face of God. He is employed in the service of his God. He has strictly to obey his God. And above all, he has to aim at the glory of his God.”

“Every science in a certain degree starts from faith, and, on the contrary, faith, which does not lead to science, is mistaken faith or superstition, but real, genuine faith it is not.”

Source : Abraham Kuyper (1931). “Lectures on Calvinism”, p.131, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

“Art without accomplishment becomes a form of faith, sustained more by the intensity of its common practice than by the pleasure it gives to its adherents in private.”

“Notwithstanding these setbacks, the dream of a beautiful American orchestra goes on, and I share Dr. King's faith that each year we move inexorably closer to a magnificent opening night.”

“God is preparing his heroes; and when the opportunity comes, he can fit them into their places in a moment, and the world will wonder where they came from.”

“Prayer is the mighty engine that is to move the missionary work.”

“There is no kind of experience in which a Christian has a right to refuse to praise God, for 'all things work together for good to them that love God.'”

Source : A.C. Dixon (2016). “Through Night to Morning”, p.127, Solid Christian Books

“My dream is of a place and a time where America will once again be seen as the last best hope of earth.”

“What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other's despair into hope?-- You yourself must change it.”