Saturday, September 01, 2007
Hope and Love
To love anybody is to expect something from him, something which can neither be defined nor foreseen; it is at the same time in some way to make it possible for him to fulfill this expectation. To expect is in some way to give: but the opposite is nonetheless true; no longer to expect is to strike with sterility the being from whom no more is expected, it is in some way to deprive him or take from him in advance what is surely a certain possibility of inventing or creating. We can only speak of hope where the interaction exists between him who gives and him who receives.- Schleiermacher
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