Quotes About Hope

present moment holds infinite riches beyond your wildest dreams but you will only enjoy them to the extent of your faith and love. The more a soul loves, the more it longs, the more it hopes, the more it finds. —Jean-Pierre de Caussade, S.J. (1675–1751), The Sacrament of the Present Moment The

Can you surrender to the future that God has in store for you?

For surely I know the plans I have for you, says the LORD, plans for your welfare and not for harm, to give you a future with hope."27

As the African American theologian James Cone notes, "Far from being songs of passive resignation, the spirituals are black freedom songs which emphasize black liberation as consistent with divine revelation.

People are more than the worst thing they've ever done in their lives.

Sometimes I think that one reason we begin praying to a saint is that the saint has already been praying for us.

Let the Great Shepherd lead; and by winding ways not without green pastures and still waters, we shall rise insensibly, and reach the tops of the everlasting hills, where the winds are cool and the sight is glorious.

I'm youth, I'm joy, I'm a little bird that has broken out of the egg.

Let no one who loves be called unhappy. Even love unreturned has its rainbow.

Let no one who loves be unhappy... even love unreturned has its rainbow.

watching the sky, contemplating the restorative power of unexpected kindness.

Some things in this world just ain't mean to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold it in this world as a remembrance, a promise for the world that's to come. There's a prize at the end of all of it, but still, that's a heavy load to bear.

God was forever generous with His gifts: hope, love, truth, and the belief in the indestructability of the good in all people.

But at the end of the day, there are some questions that have no answers, and then one answer that has no question: love rules the game. Every time. All the time. That's what counts.

Dead as a doornail, yet dreaming of Venice.

So it is with life. Those thorns, the prickly problems of life, cause us to strive to rise above them and then, as we do, we learn. We learn to exercise true compassion, true kindness - or the thorns, if we let them, cause us to brood, to mourn over our trials. Then we plant the seeds of bitterness, hate, and ruin - weeds. We may reach up for the rose or down to the weeds...the weeds in life that tangle us, strangle us, and cause us to lose hope.

We have a light upon our house, and it gives hope to all who sail upon the stormy seas. Do ya know what it means to have a light burning atop your home? It is safety, a place of refuge, seen by all that as a signal that ye stand for something greater than this world, greater than us all.

The dreams of youth. So noble. So good. And heavy dreamsthey were- made frail only by their own weight.

America is a nation with many flaws, but hopes so vast that only the cowardly would refuse to acknowledge them.

Our country may be likened to a new house. We lack many things, but we possess the most precious of all - liberty!

Jesus said, "If anyone enters by me, he will be saved" (John 10:9). That includes you, and it refers to something that can take place now. If you have not yet trusted Jesus, You can trust Him now. Today is the day of salvation.

Mary was still thinking in terms of a dead body when Jesus confronted her with His living presence.

I was so lost, didn't know what to do with myself, I was my own worst enemy, I was lost and oh I needed help, Then you came along, and saw what state I was in, You picked me up, when I was down, Showed me how to live again.

It cannot rain all the time...