Basil Hume on humans
Basil Hume11 quotes“Deep down, we remain human, very human and have all the desires to love and be loved by one person.”
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From aquaintances we conceal our real selves. To our friends we reveal our weaknesses.
Basil HumeBasil Hume 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 HumeBasil Hume 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.
Basil HumeBasil Hume Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.
Basil HumeBasil Hume 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.
Basil HumeBasil Hume 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 HumeBasil Hume 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 HumeBasil Hume We have really lost in our society the sense of the sacredness of life.
Basil HumeBasil Hume 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 HumeBasil Hume 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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