"We can either love God because we hope for something from God, or we can hope in God knowing that he loves us. Sometimes we begin with the first kind of hope and grow into the second. Hope is proportionate to detachment. It brings our souls into the state of the most perfect detachment. In doing so, it restores all values by setting them in their right order. Hope empties our hands in order that we may work with them.
Hope casts us into the arms of God's mercy and of God's providence. If we hope in God, we will not only come to know that God is merciful but we will experience God's mercy in our own lives."
-- Thomas Merton, Sentences on Hope, No Man Is an Island
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