Quotes About Hope

I wondered what things became when you no longer needed them, and I wondered what the future would hold once we'd gotten past our personal tragedies and proven them ultimately survivable. When

because that's all you can do in this world, no matter how strong the current beats against you, or how heavy your burden, or how tragic your love story. you keep going.

She was achingly effortless, and she would never, in a million years, choose me. But, for the next few minutes, I contented myself with the magnificent possibility that she might.

I went to sleep every night that week waiting for whatever it was between the two of us to start traveling at the speed of flashlights, but it never did. As always, she left me wanting more, and dreaming of what it would be like if I ever got it.

We all reach for whatever we think is going to dull the pain, and sometimes we don't even want whatever it is, we just want to not be miserable, you know?

if there's one message that comes up again and again, it's 'Love conquers Fear.

Because we knew Mordor was real. We felt that their story"—that of the hobbits and others resisting the evil Sauron—"was our story too. Tolkien's dragons are more realistic than a lot of things we have in this world.

God will eventually win, even though I may not see it in my life. So my suffering is not meaningless, because I am part of a greater battle that will be victorious in the end. That is what our father showed us by his life.

Christians must embrace suffering because that's what Jesus did, and because they have the promise, on faith, that to share in his suffering will bring glory in the next life.

We may not be able to communicate that meaning to a world gone insane, but as Orwell knew, simply by staying sane when everyone else is mad, we may hope to convey the human heritage.

la opción benedictina no invita a mirar el pasado sino afrontar el futuro con la combativa, discreta y razonable esperanza que mantuvo la fe de Charles Péguy, Emmanuel Mounier o Jacques Maritain.

Los cristianos sabemos que hay una luz que las tinieblas no pueden vencer ni entender, y es la luz de Aquel a quien debemos regresar para superar este tiempo de prueba. Es la luz de Cristo, la que iluminó los monasterios de la Edad Media y a todos los que allí se congregaban.

Marx and his disciples replaced the Christian hope in a reward in heaven with the belief that perfection could—and inevitably would—be established on this earth, after a savage apocalypse, and through the application of science and science-based politics.

These long years later it is worse for I remember what it was as well as what it might have been.

For every star that falls to earth a new one glows. For every dream that fades away a new one grows. When things are not what they would seem you must keep following your dream.

We will all wake up semi-angels, If we wake at all.

This is the way it was while I was waiting for your eyes to find me.

Who is not a love seeker when December comes? Even children pray to Santa Claus.

Thank you for the sun you brought this morning even though the sky was full of clouds.

I'm not the first man or the last who had a thirst to leave the past.

Always I glance both ways. Why chance missing love wherever she or he may lurk?

Did you think of party dresses and high school plays or hallways full of lovers not yet met?

Happy Christmas and I love your ears tomorrow we'll untie the package of another year. Twelve more months of summer if you stay winter if you go.

The secular world looks to the church and to its chagrin, finds no love, no life, no laughter, no hope and no happiness.