The possibility of hope

I felt heartened by this quote in a newsletter from a peace group, Pax Christi, from the founder of the Taize Community in France, Brother Roger.

During the darkest periods of history, quite often a small number of men and women, scattered throughout the world, have been able to reverse the course of historical evolutions. This was only possible because they hoped beyond all hope. What had been bound for disintegration then entered into the current of a new dynamism.