The hope of eternal life is not to be taken up upon slight grounds. It is a subject to be settled between God and your own soul; settled for eternity. A supposed hope, and nothing more, will prove your ruin.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
Our hope in life beyond death is a hope made possible, not by some general sentimental belief in life after death, but by our participation in the life of Christ.
Hope, insofar as it is hope of resurrection, is the living contradiction of what it proceeds from and what is placed under the sign of the Cross and death.
We do not know what to do with this short life, yet we want another which will be eternal.
To live without Hope is to Cease to live.
Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.
Eternal life can mean utter reverence for life itself.
It seems as if life and hope must cease together.
The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy because our Satisfaction is now at another level, and our Source is beyond ourselves.
The first step to eternal life is you have to die.
Death is the great hope of all life; the desire to expend itself; to be used and consumed by its own longing for itself.