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Hope by Emil Brunner

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What oxygen is for the lungs, such is hope for the meaning of human life. Take oxygen away and death occurs through suffocation, take oxygen away and humanity is constricted through lack of breath; despair supervenes, spelling the paralyses of intellectual and spiritual powers by a feeling of the senselessness and purposelessness of existence. As the fate of the human organism is dependent on the supply of oxygen so the fate of humanity is dependent on the supply of hope.

taken from: 
opening words of Eternal Hope
Author: 
Emil Brunner