“Faith, hope, and charity go together. Hope is practiced
through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of
apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's
mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness. Faith tells us that God has
given his Son for our sakes and gives us the victorious certainty that it is
really true: God is love! It thus transforms our impatience and our doubts into
the sure hope that God holds the world in his hands and that, as the dramatic
imagery of the end of the Book of Revelation points out, in spite of
all darkness he ultimately triumphs in glory. Faith, which sees the love of God
revealed in the pierced heart of Jesus on the Cross, gives rise to love. Love
is the light—and in the end, the only light—that can always illuminate a world
grown dim and give us the courage needed to keep living and working. Love is
possible, and we are able to practice it because we are created in the image of
God.”
—Benedict XVI, Deus Caritas Est
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