Quotes About Hope

Blessed are those who have eaten from the bread of love which is Jesus. This is the wine that gladdens human hearts. This is the wine which the lustful have drunk and they have become chaste, the sinners and they forgot the ways of unrighteousness, the drunkards and they became fasters, the rich and they became desirous of poverty, the poor and they became rich in hope, the sick and they became courageous, the fools and they became wise. Mystical Treatises, St. Isaac the Syrian, 7th Century

Somethingism is better than nihilism.

Christianity—which for so long had kept their cringing adherents trapped in a state of "slavery without hope and a perpetual infancy," would finally be revealed for the lies, tricks, and deceits that they were.

One moment in the sun is worth a lifetime in the rain.

In life, you need either inspiration or desperation.

The human spirit is not indestructible; but a courageous few discover that, when in hell, they are granted a glimpse of heaven.

They who do not understand that a man may be brought to hope that which of all things is the most grievous to him, have not observed with sufficient closeness the perversity of the human mind.

There was but one thing for him;- to persevere till he got her, or till he had finally lost her. And should the latter be his fate, as he began to fear that it would be, then, he would live, but live only, like a crippled man.

America's greatest strength, and its greatest weakness, is our belief in second chances, our belief that we can always start over, that things can be made better.

Let the sun shine in.

What saves a man is to take a step. Then another step. It is always the same step, but you have to take it.

What makes the desert beautiful is that somewhere it hides a well.

What makes the desert beautiful,' said the little prince, 'is that somewhere it hides a well...

As for the future, your task is not to foresee it, but to enable it.

Strangeness is the form taken by beauty when beauty has no hope.

Let us learn to appreciate there will be times when the trees will be bare, and look forward to the time when we may pick the fruit.

We shall find peace. We shall hear angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

No matter how corrupt and unjust a convict may be, he loves fairness more than anything else. If the people placed over him are unfair, from year to year he lapses into an embittered state characterized by an extreme lack of faith.

That's the whole challenge of life - to act with honor and hope and generosity, no whatter what you've drawn. You can't help when or what you were born, you may not be able to help how you die; but you can - and you should - try to pass the days between as a good man.

Its even pleasant to be sick when you know that there are people who await your recovery as they might await a holiday.

They say: "In the long run truth will triumph;" but it is untrue.

Moscow is a city that has much suffering ahead of it.

We shall find peace. We shall hear the angels, we shall see the sky sparkling with diamonds.

To Moscow, to Moscow, to Moscow!