Whence hope?

“All through history we find plentiful evidence of the same non-moral and irrational tendency which causes idealists and humanitarians to despair. . . . [However] the Christian ought to be the last person in the world to lose hope in the presence of the failure of the right and the apparent triumph of evil. For all this forms part of the Christian view of life, and the Christian discipline is expressly designed to prepare us to face such a situation.”

– Christopher Dawson