Quotes About Hope

Instead of chiding him, John steadily advanced more money in 1884, retired his debts, provided income for his family, and rallied his bruised spirits, saying, "Keep a stiff upper lip, clean up as you go, and the skies will brighten by and bye.

On May 12, a thousand New Yorkers cheered from the docks as Jay sailed to England, hoping to avert war.

When pastor John Heyl Vincent dropped by to transmit his hope that Ulysses "might be preserved from all harm and restored to his family," Julia fairly burst out with a new fantasy: "Dear me! I hope he will get to be a major-general or something big!

I ran out of strong.

he assured me that God didn't make cancer because cancer is not good, and he cautioned me not to blame God for something He didn't make.

I thank God today she found the courage in her heart to love me enough so that someday I could tell you that even a black ex-con from Angola that stabbed a man could maybe someday do some good in the world if he gets a chance.

Dark night of the soul," said Jesus, "Happens to everybody sooner or later.

She knows her life is on the line but, believe it or not, she's never been so excited! Her husband's a serial killer, and her bodice is wet with tears, but there's a chance her brothers will show up like winning lottery numbers. Which does she want more - her hair wound in the maniac's hands and her white white throat bared, or the sound of boots on marble stairs?

Since I've been pretty much treading water all day, the marquee of the Rialto Theatre looks like the prow of a ship coming to save me.

all the while remembering what it had felt like when the world you knew had up and vanished, and you needed to find something to bring that world back, and you weren't sure that you could.

I guess sometimes you've got the hope-fors so much it makes you imagine all sorts of things.

a place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world. The earth itself shouldn't be able to abide it.

He wanted to make the world better, but, according to Rodney, the world wasn't interested.

Libenter homines id quad volunt credunt." "Men are glad to believe that which they wish for?" Miss Calicut asked. Professor

The Bible begins with paradise lost, at which time pain, suffering, and death first entered the human race. The Bible ends with paradise regained, at which time pain, suffering, and death will be a thing of the past.

Luke 21:25-28 Acts 1:9-11; 3:19-21 1 Thessalonians 3:13 2 Thessalonians 1:6-10; 2:3,8 1 Peter 4:12-13 2 Peter 3:1-14 Jude 14-15 Revelation 1:7; 19:11–20:6; 22:7,12,20

Somewhere inside all of us is the power to change the world.

To sit back hoping that someday, someway, someone will make things right is to go on feeding the crocodile, hoping he will eat you last - but eat you he will.

You and I have a rendezvous with destiny. We will preserve for our children this, the last best hope of man on earth, or we will sentence them to take the first step into a thousand years of darkness. If we fail, at least let our children and our children's children say of us we justified our brief moment here. We did all that could be done.

While I take inspiration from the past, like most Americans, I live for the future.

I do not want to go back to the past; I want to go back to the past way of facing the future.

America is, and always will be, a shining city on a hill.

In this springtime of hope, some lights seem eternal; America's is.

If we're free to dare – and we are – if we're free to give – and we are – then we're free to shape the future and have within our grasp all that we dream the future will be.