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Quotes About Hope

He is our Redeemer, Deliverer, Reconciler, Mediator, Intercessor, Advocate, Attorney, Solicitor, our Hope, Comfort, Shield, Protection, Defender, Strength, Health, Satisfaction and Salvation. His blood, his death, all that he ever did, is ours. And Christ himself, with all that he is or can do, is ours. . . . And God (as great as he is) is mine, with all that he hath, through Christ and his purchasing. —William Tyndale, A Pathway into the Holy Scripture
~ S. Michael Wilcox
God can cause us to forget all our toil and make us fruitful even in the land of our affliction. That
~ S. Michael Wilcox
Expect Nothing
~ S.D. Perry
Perhaps we will meet again. Anything is possible, especially in a place like this.
~ S.D. Perry
May you leave without returning and fall without rising, addressed to the lovely darlin? man himself. The which is perhaps a little too close to a curse for comfort, but sometimes things need to be said.?
~ S.M. Stirling
The story never ends, but our part in the tale does, for a while, and I'm in the mood for some happy-ever-aftering! We earned it, as the Gods themselves know!
~ S.M. Stirling
I'm sorry, Son / I'm just a poet. I hope this is enough. / If it isn't I'll burn down the house / and give you the ashes.
~ Sabrina Orah Mark
There are so many people, and they are so beautiful and hopeful. And they too are covered in holes. They each carry a bucket. And in each bucket is a hole. This is the song we're in.
~ Sabrina Orah Mark
Rouse thee, my fainting soul, and play the man; And through such waning span Of life and thought as still has to be trod, Prepare to meet thy God. And while the storm of that bewilderment Is for a season spent, And, ere afresh the ruin on me fall, Use well the interval.
~ Saint John Henry Newman
By Thy birth, and by Thy Cross, Rescue him from endless loss; By Thy death and burial, Save him from a final fall; By Thy rising from the tomb, By Thy mounting up above, By the Spirit's gracious love, Save him in the day of doom.
~ Saint John Henry Newman
Novissima hora est; and I fain would sleep. The pain has weaned me ... Into Thy hands, O Lord, into Thy hands ...
~ Saint John Henry Newman
In light of heaven, the worst suffering on earth will be seen to be no more serious than one night in an inconvenient hotel.
~ Saint Teresa of Avila
I keep on making myself little goals, but every time I achieve one of them. I'm forced to face up to the fact that nothing has changed. The thing that is still wrong and always will be. But that's too difficult to face, so all I can do is to pick another goal and start again.
~ Saira Shah
And one day, God would send another baby, a baby promised to a girl who didn't even have a husband. But this baby would bring laughter to the whole world. This baby would be everyone's dream come true.
~ Sally Lloyd-Jones
Even death is going to die!
~ Sally Lloyd-Jones
I'm hoping to do more than see it, mate.
~ Sally Malcolm
Oh sometimes it does, Carter
~ Sally Malcolm
He didn't promise to always be there. Whatever Ash might think, Harry knew it was impossible. And there was no point in wishing for impossible things.
~ Sally Malcolm
Not all possibilities are open to us. The world is finite; our hopes spill over its rim.
~ Salman Rushdie
Ignorantly is how we all fall in love; for it is a kind of fall. Closing our eyes, we leap from that cliff in hope of a soft landing. Nor is it always soft; but still, without that leap nobody comes to life.
~ Salman Rushdie
To be born again,' sang Gibreal Farishta tumbling from the heaveans, 'first you have to die. Ho ji! Ho ji! To land upon the bosomy earth, first one needs to fly Tat-taa! Takatun! How to ever smile again, if first you won't cry? How to win the darling's love mister, without a sigh?
~ Salman Rushdie
Do not contemplate what lies beyond failure while you are still trying to succeed.
~ Salman Rushdie
The enemy is stupid, he replied. That is ground for hope. There is no originality in tyrants, and they learn nothing from the demise of their precursors. They will be brutal and stifling and engender hatred and destroy what men love and that will defeat them. All important battles are, in the end, conflicts between hatred and love, and we must hold to the idea that love is stronger than hate.
~ Salman Rushdie
Who hopes for an hour hopes for eternity. The world in an hour. What follows is unseen.
~ Salman Rushdie