"The worst anxiety of all ... is the fear of not being loved, the loss of love: despair is thus the conviction that one has forfeited all love forever, the horror of complete isolation. Hope in the proper sense of the word is thus the reverse: the certainty that I shall receive that great love that is indestructible and that I am already loved with this love here and now."
Joseph Ratzinger [Pope Benedict XVI]
To Look on Christ: Exercises in Faith, Hope, and Love
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