Quotes About Hope

He asks too much to whom God is not sufficient.

In leaning upon His Cross, let me not refuse my own; yet in bearing mine, let me bear it by the strength of His.

Hope is foundational to our ability to look beyond our present circumstances.

Out of the dusk a shadow,Then a spark;Out of the clouds a silence,Then a lark;Out of the heart a rapture,Then a pain;Out of the dead, cold ashes,Life again.

For love is of such potent might That of misfortune it makes light.

I'm still walking, so I'm sure that I can dance.

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

But how good God is! How well He fits our trials to our strength!

Quia tu es Deus fortitudo mea; quare me repulisti, et quare tristis incedo, dum affligit me inimicus?

That you are a worldly adult,' she said. 'You have spent your whole life letting go of the innocent dreams that made your childhood so warm and hopeful and full of certainty. Dream by dream you let them go. We all do it, to shield ourselves from disappointment. It's easy to shed them. Not so easy to get them back.

Hold Everything Dear

The promise is that again and again from the garbage the scattered feathers the ashes and broken bodies something new and beautiful may be born

I've learnt something more. The expectation of a body can last as long as any hope. Like mine expecting yours. As soon as they gave you two life sentences, I stopped believing in their time.

But I do guess mos peoples gonna lose.

Gift us," Berryman prays to God, "with long cloaks & adrenaline" ("Eleven Addresses

Love forgets wrongs so that there is hope for the future.

Everything is just a mess, Friend, be clever! Fifty years from now Other people will be alive.

Humans have been shouting their question for millennia: Why in God's name won't you show up? They say it when the moment seems to demand a force to do good: If you are God, then do something. But to show up in those moments would be to come in your name, not Mine. My ways are not your ways.

It will happen but it will take time.

They believed my story was over, but it was nearly the beginning.

There's only so much to a lifetime and often it lets you down when you're best geared for going on.

The Angel of Death has been abroad throughout the land; you may almost hear the beating of his wings. There is no one, as when the first-born were slain of old, to sprinkle with blood the lintel and the two side-posts of our doors, that he may spare and pass on; he takes his victims from the castle of the noble, the mansion of the wealthy, and the cottage of the poor and lowly.

The charm of fishing is that it is the pursuit of what is elusive but attainable, a perpetual series of occasions for hope.

The second certainty is associated with spirit, as in Pasternak's novel, Dr. Zhivago, when the physician says to a young woman dying of cancer, "Your spirit will live on, you know. Your spirit is you in others, others in you.