Hope is always future. Faith is always now.
Someone comes to me and asks me to pray for them, and I say, "Was the prayer answered?" And they answer, "I hope it was."
Then I know it will not be answered, and I frankly tell them, "No, the Hoper's prayers are seldom answered."
Hope is a beautiful thing when it is about Heaven, or the coming back of the Master, and everything that belongs to the future. But for present-tense practices and present-tense life, hope is a dangerous enemy.
It is beautiful, but it is dangerous!
The Hoper is always a failure. It is the Believer that is a success.
--E.W. Kenyon
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