He also highlighted that hope “is a virtue against which we often sin: in our bad nostalgia, in our melancholy, when we think that past happiness is buried forever.”
Furthermore, he pointed out that we sin against hope “when we become despondent over our sins, forgetting that God is merciful and greater than our hearts.”
“We sin against hope when autumn cancels out spring in us; when the love of God stops being an eternal fire and we lack the courage to make decisions that commit us for life.”
In this sense, he assured that “the world needs hope, as it also needs patience, a virtue that walks hand in hand with hope.”