Precepts of the Blessed Hope
Eighteen years in the making.
A patient, reverent gathering of Scripture on the hope that has carried the Church through every generation. Don Mills writes from the seat of a man who has studied long and quietly — not to impress, but to remember what is true and to set it down plainly for those who read after him.
"I wrote slowly, and I let the years do their work."
For eighteen years I returned to these passages, sometimes for a season, sometimes for a single sentence. I am not a hurried writer. The hope we are given is not a hurried hope — it is a long, steady light, and it has asked steady study of me.
This book is the result. It is offered not as a final word, but as a companion for the road — the way a lantern is offered, or a hand on the shoulder of a friend. May it serve.
— Don Mills
"The blessed hope is not a doctrine to be defended at arm's length. It is a country we are walking toward — and the road itself is mercy."