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Quotes About Hope

the beast is the monster that destroys your dream
~ Walter Dean Myers
I think that if we can't go back, then we should try even harder to go forward. And I do want to go forward, to a place where loving someone because they have a gentle smile and a friendly hello is as easy as it once was.
~ Walter Dean Myers
Think about all the tomorrows of your life.
~ Walter Dean Myers
On the streets of the city They have taken my Who-I-Am As well as my What-I-Was And now I am desperate for them both Again
~ Walter Dean Myers
And the greatest grace God can give such a man is to send him a trial he cannot bear with his own powers—and then sustain him with his grace so he may endure to the end and be saved.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
no matter what my small sufferings are, I have a choice. I can either let them make me bitter, or I can meet them with the confidence that God will not abandon me.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
Faith is inseparable from love; out of these two twins hope is born.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
Every moment of every man's life is precious in God's sight, and none must be wasted through doubt and discouragement. The work of the kingdom, the work of laboring and suffering with Christ, is no more spectacular for the most part than the routine of daily living.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
If God had preserved him this far, a prisoner would tell you, if he had not rejected him with all his transgressions but had kept him alive until now, then surely he would not abandon him. That was the source of their confidence and trust in him.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
This was the "good news" of salvation, meant to remove mankind's last doubts, last fears, about the nature of death. For the resurrection was a fact, a fact as certain and as sure as death itself, and it meant that death held no victory over men, that life beyond death is a certainty and not just a human hope or fable.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
Death to them was not an end, but a beginning, a passage into eternal life.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
La humildad significa eso: aprender a aceptar el desánimo e incluso la derrota como enviados por Dios; aprender a perseverar y seguir adelante con el corazón en paz y confiando en Dios, seguros de que lo que suceda merece la pena, por el mero hecho de que en nuestra vida está actuando la voluntad de Dios y nosotros procuramos aceptarla y seguirla.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
final. Y la mayor gracia que Dios puede concederle es enviarle una prueba que no sea capaz de soportar con sus propias fuerzas… y sostenerlo con su gracia para que pueda perseverar hasta el final y salvarse.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
En realidad, no es cuestión de confiar o no en Dios, porque de hecho deseamos confiar en Él: es cuestión de nuestra fe última en su existencia y en su providencia, y exige el acto de fe más puro.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
There would be a tomorrow, and we would have to live in it—and God would be there as well.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
And I learned soon enough that prayer does not take away bodily pain or mental anguish. Nevertheless, it does provide a certain moral strength to bear the burden patiently. Certainly, it was prayer that helped me through every crisis.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
I learned there the lesson which would keep me going in the years to come: religion, prayer, and love of God do not change reality, but they give it a new meaning.
~ Walter J. Ciszek
It's for us, Daud. To get us out, into the Orbitals...Where it's clean, Daud...Where we're not in the street, because there isn't a street...It'll be different. Something we haven't known. Something finer. You should see your eyes when you say that...Like you've just put a needle in your veins. Like that hope is your drug, and you're hooked on it.
~ Walter Jon Williams
Earth, the startlingly pure blue and white, the brown and silver snakes that are rivers filled with erosion, the fragmented coastlines where the rising seas are eating the land, just as Earth's remaining resources are being eaten by the population. Soon the population may be the only resource left. The Orbitals were once their hope, a gateway to new resources. Now the Orbitals stand like a wall between Earth and its broken dreams, claiming the future for their own. Reno
~ Walter Jon Williams
I still believe in love. I always will. It's my blessing and my burden.
~ Walter Kirn
My doctor gave me six months to live, but when I couldn't pay the bill he gave me six months more.
~ Walter Matthau
Im as good as dead, but they haven't buried me yet.
~ Walter Moers
but I was urged on by a courage born of despair.
~ Walter Moers
Bücher sind das beste Schmerzmittel, um das Leben zu ertragen.
~ Walter Moers