“Hope has two beautiful daughters; their names are Anger and Courage. Anger at the way things are, and Courage to see that they do not remain as they are.”

I love this quote from the Catholic saint, Augustine, quoted by Steve Chalke today in his ‘Pause for Thought’ on BBC Radio 2. And then what Steve went onto add was great too:

“…one of the ancient words the Bible uses for ‘hope’ is ‘tikvah’, which comes from the word for a ‘multi-stranded rope’.

That’s what Martin Luther King understood. Hope has to be tangible! When you’re down a deep hole, you need a strong woven rope to climb out with, rather than empty optimism. That’s what he and his friends gave their lives to weaving.”