Quotes About Hope

Hope for the best.' 'But plan for the worst.

The edge of the world crept into view, at least to the straining wide-open eyes, limned and outlined in gray on gray, infinitely dim, infinitely subtle, hardly there at all, part imagination, and part hope. Then pale gold fingers probed the gray, moving, ethereal, as if deciding. And then spreading, igniting some thin and distant layer one molecule at a time, one lumen, lighting it up slowly, turning it luminous and transparent, the glass of the bowl, not white and cold, but tinted warmer.

desperate. How could fiction help? Which it had to

A small, sad smile spread across the woman's face. "I would love to go visit Dendoncker. Believe me. I'd be there in a heartbeat. But we can't. It's impossible." "No such thing as impossible. Just inadequate preparation.

before the doctors. Right here in Chicago. We

THE RETURN ADDRESS on Rutter's letter corresponded to a dingy storefront some blocks south of any hope of urban renewal.

Look on the bright side," Dixon said. "Maybe you gave the guy a concussion. Maybe he doesn't remember who he is, let alone who you are.

wouldn't. So he hoped they would bear

Reacher defaulted to his instinctive position, which was to hope for the best, but plan for the worst.

I guess I can dream. Hope dies last, right?

Hope for the best, plan for the worst." "That wouldn't get us a warrant." "Warrants are about what you can prove. Not what you know." "And you know?" "It's an instinct thing. It's why I'm still here, after seven million years. Darwinism in action.

All the guys Reacher had ever known, fraud, theft, homicide, and treason, right up to the very end believed there was some chance of getting away with it, and therefore something should be salvaged, if possible. No one wanted to start over with nothing.

12. Nada que perder (Nothing to Lose)

Maybe it's a good thing if we don't see her. It would mean she doesn't need what Billy was selling. It would mean she's OK. Someone stole her ring. You said so yourself." "Best case." "Which sometimes happens." "Sometimes," Reacher said. "How often?" "More than never. Less than always.

Hope for the best, plan for the worst. That

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Anchoring our hope to Christ means we live with a confident expectation that he will therefore fulfill his promises to us.

God is the God of do-overs, and that should give us great hope. We really can be absolved of our past.

he bajado mis expectativas de mí mismo y otros, a la vez que he elevado mis expectativas de Dios y su gracia». —

To Jesus she already is somebody. Like the loving father of the prodigal son, Jesus is frantically scanning the horizon, watching for Madonna to return to him. He's absolutely convinced that she's so valuable that she's worth dying for. 'Greater love has no one than this,' said Jesus in John 15:13, 'that one lay down his life for his friends.' That's what He did for her on the cross!

That is the joyful task of every follower of Jesus. Someday may it be written about me on my tombstone: He was so amazed by God's grace that he couldn't keep it to himself.

We need to admit that we can't get through even the challenges of today--much less the problems that lie ahead--without some outside intervention.

Biblical hope is the confident expectation that God is willing and able to fulfill the promises he has made to those who trust in him.

We can never sink so far that God's grace will not reach us. At the same time, grace does not leave us there. It raises us to new heights.