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Hope Needs a Foundation
Our Daily Bread, April 17, 1995
Hope Needs a Foundation
Our Daily Bread, April 17, 1995
A little over a month before he died, the famous atheist Jean-Paul Sartre declared that he so strongly resisted feelings of despair that he would say to himself, "I know I shall die in hope." Then in profound sadness, he would add, "But hope needs a foundation."