Quotes About Hope

twenty years, the odds of finding Sarah

Looking into your child's eyes, knowing you would never again see in them the glint of life, was the harshest kind of reality, and there wasn't a faith in the world that could ease that pain.

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My mother used to tell me that life is a lot like reading a book. You don't know what is going to happen next unless you turn the page and read to the ending. That's the beauty of reading. The journey.

Usted tiene el regalo. Usted es un curandero.

It could be so cruel, hope. But for twenty years it was all she'd had to hold on to, the only thing to push back the darkness that lingered on the periphery, searching for every opportunity to enshroud her.

Everything is going to be okay.

And maybe 'if ifs and buts were candy and nuts, we'd all have a merry Christmas

life is a lot like reading a book. You don't know what is going to happen next unless you turn the page and read to the ending. That's the beauty of reading. The journey.

Tracy had always thought hope to be cruel, a tease that filled people with positive emotions, without any real basis.

The loss of hope is nearly as dangerous as the drug itself. Addicts have a lot of self-hatred. They believe they're worthless.

You won't heal, never completely, but it will get better with time.

May the road rise up to meet you. May the wind be always at your back. May the sun shine upon your face, the rains fall soft upon your fields. And until we meet again, may God hold you in the palm of his hand.

I realized that just because things hadn't worked out as I'd planned didn't mean things couldn't work out at all.

You have carried a branch of tomorrow into the room-its frangrance awakened me.

I hope I left behind a legacy that people will enjoy. But whatever they want to say, I can't predict.

One thinks the worst even while clinging to hopes for the best.

In their bitter words and their even more bitter tears, I would sense both a deep love for the Church and a practically bottomless disillusionment with it.

There is grace for everything: grace to come and grace to go, grace to speak and grace to keep silent, grace to mourn and grace to dance, grace to weep and grace to laugh, grace to pack and grace to unpack, grace to be sick and grace to heal, grace to plant and grace to harvest, grace to tear down and grace to build up, grace to love and grace to hate, grace to live and grace to die. From beginning to end, life becomes a rhapsody of grace. Even the desire for grace comes by grace.

Someday, when all your civilization and science are likewise swept away, your kind will pray for a man with a sword.

I tremble for my country when I hear of confidence expressed in me. I know too well my weakness, that our only hope is in God.

We failed, but in the good providence of God apparent failure often proves a blessing.

In all my perplexities and distresses, the Bible has never failed to give me light and strength.

My trust is in the mercy and wisdom of a kind Providence, who ordereth all things for our good.