“A friend of mine recently announced that he had lost hope for the human race. The news each day was so consistently and relentlessly depressing, he said, that he was certain that the human project had run its course. We might flail about for a few more centuries, but the end of civilization was in sight…”

JMB 4/1/15

https://www.christiancentury.org/article/2015-03/reason-hope