“Someone who sees his own sin is greater than someone who raises the dead,” the Desert Fathers said. Peter passed from presumption to hope. Hope is the virtue of people who know they are infinitely weak and easily broken, and rely firmly on God with utter trust. Peter for the first time in his life made a real act of hope: “What I’m not capable of doing by my own strength, I hope for from you, O my God. Not by virtue of my merits, because I have none, but by virtue of your mercy alone.”
