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The Thinker

Which is greatest, faith, hope or charity?

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Faith — obviously — as that’s my sister’s middle name!
Maybe if you had the faith to enjoy the present and be fully present in it, you wouldn’t need hope … so it’s either faith or charity!
Thats easy! Charity — or love (depending on your version) — at least, Paul thought so (see 1 corinthians 13:13) and I’d tend to agree with him!
Charity. Certainly in Scrabble(TM) terms, anyway.
For some, in some contexts, hope of something better might be all they have … so hope would be primary!
Faith — it’s Hope’s more focussed cousin and the starting point for Charity of any kind. And the glue that keeps Christianity together …
Charity: it’s got more bite to it.
I don’t know, but if we lose sight of any of them, we are lost indeed.
I’d say faith. In the past I’d have said hope, because that’s what kept me going. Now it’s faith. But maybe Charity comes next … who knows?
One of my two Dads is entirely love, and from him I can learn to have faith hope and charity.

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Last modified: 25th November 2005