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.

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  Faith, Christian, Hope

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

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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.

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  Death, Love You, Long

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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.

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  Attitude, Consistency, Needs

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

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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.

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  Sad, Next Week, Suffering

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

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• We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.

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  Society, Lost, Sacredness

  The Observer Review, 1995.

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• Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person.

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  Love, Desire, Humans

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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.

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  Divine Order, Choices, Decision

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• From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses.

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  Real, Self, Weakness

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

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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.

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  Struggle, Evil, Suffering

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

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