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.

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.

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

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

Moral choices do not depend on personal preference and private decision but on right reason and, I would add, divine order.

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

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.