Quotes About Hope

Dear God, I don't want to have invented my faith to satisfy my weakness. I don't want to have created God to my own image as they're so fond of saying. Please give me the necessary grace, oh Lord, and please don't let it be as hard to get as Kafka made it.

He knew something was going to happen and his entire system was waiting on it. He thought it was going to be one of the supreme moments in life but apart from that, he didn't have the vaguest notion what it might be. He pictured himself, after it was over, as an entirely new man, with an even better personality than he had now. He sat there for about fifteen minutes and nothing happened.

There are some of us who have to pay for our faith every step of the way and who have to work out dramatically what it would be like without it and if being without it would be ultimately possible or not.

The virtue of hope, in Enoch, was made up of two parts suspicion and one part lust.

People without hope do not write novels … [Writing fiction] is a plunge into reality and it's very shocking to the system. If the novelist is not sustained by a hope of money, then he must be sustained by a hope of salvation, or he simply won't survive the ordeal.

I hope you understand that it is not the tooth of the saber-toothed tiger I want, it is the tiger . I don't care if it's a old toothless tiger or not, just so it's alive. I intend to start a zoo.

The misery he had was a longing for home; it had nothing to do with Jesus.

I just know you're a good man, she said desperately. You're not a bit common!

In spite of himself, Enoch couldn't get over the expectation that the new jesus was going to do something for him in return for his services. This was the virtue of Hope, which was made up, in Enoch, of two parts suspicion and one part lust.

El camino a la desesperación es renunciar a cualquier tipo de experiencia.

I suppose that is what we have to have to get grace. Give me the courage to stand the pain to get the grace, Oh Lord. Help me with this life that seems so treacherous, so disappointing.

Ci si rifugia nella mediocrità quando non si spera più nelle cose belle che si sono sognate!

Therefore, so long as we live in this fallen world, we are simul iustus et peccator (saint and sinner simultaneously), until the destruction of the old Adam is completed as God makes all things new (Rev. 21:5; Isa. 42:9; 43:19; Gal. 6:15).

It is God's new creative act, his great reclamation project that is even greater than the creation itself, because whereas we are "wonderfully created," we are "yet more wonderfully restored."30

In the present time, God's "wording" (logizomai) of his new creation proceeds largely in a hidden way. The invincible transforming power of God's coming future is acting simultaneously in and through the deeply flawed realities of the present human situation.

The Son of God did not come to make good people better but to give life to the dead.

In other words, God's righteousness involves not only a great reversal ("the first will be last") but also an actual transformation and re-creation.

the gospel is a message of deliverance from the grip of evil and Death.

Life's darker side: that's Advent.

the entire human race is heir to what John Henry Newman called a "vast primordial catastrophe," and that only a stronger power from outside ourselves can repair the breach.

I really cherish my family life, because at one point I never thought I'd have it.

Over and over again, I looked family members who had lost loved ones to police violence, I looked them right in the eye and told them, 'Don't worry. We will get justice for your family.'

Most people only see Africa in terms of poverty and war, famine and disease.

I always felt I was going to be famous.