Quotes About Hope

Broken things are precious. We eat broken bread because we share in the depth of our Lord and His broken life. Broken flowers give perfume. Broken incense is used in adoration. A broken ship saved Paul and many other passengers on their way to Rome. Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

When you think of the condition the world is in now you sometimes wish that Noah had missed the boat.

Skeptics always want miracles such as stepping down from the Cross, but never the greater miracle of forgiveness.

Say to yourself over and over again regardless of what happens: "God loves me!" And then add: "And I will try to love Him!

A tiny architect works inside the human heart drawing sketches of the ideal love from the people it sees, from the books it reads, from its hopes and daydreams, in the fond hope that the eye may one day see the ideal and the hand touch it. Life becomes satisfying the moment the dream is seen walking, and the person appears as the incarnation of all that one loved. The

The melody of her life is played just as it was written. Mary was thought, conceived, and planned as the equal sign between ideal and history, thought and reality, hope and realization.

Love itself starts with the desire for something good.

There are two ways of knowing how good God is: one is never to lose Him, and the other is to lose Him and then to find Him.

Our blessed Lord was hopeful about humanity. He always saw men the way He originally designed them. He saw through the surface, grime, and dirt to the real man underneath. He never identified a person with sin. He saw sin as something alien and foreign which did not belong to man. Sin had mastered man but he could be freed from it to be his real self. Just as every mother sees her own image and likeness on her child's face, so God always saw the divine image and likeness beneath us.

greatest poverty of all—the spiritual poverty of seeming abandonment by God:

It takes eternity to make a man despair.

We grow weary, of course, but God is unwearied in giving us new strength.

two world wars in twenty-one years, and the universal dread of nuclear incineration. This time God has given us John Paul II

every sorrow is really the "Shade of His Hand outstretched caressingly

Only those who die with Him will live with Him.

God does not always spare the good from grief. The Father spared not the Son, and the Son spared not the mother.

There is no door through which tears do not pass.

Before He gives strength, He makes us feel our emptiness.

The Divine Savior never said to His Apostles: "Be good and you will not suffer" but He did say: "In this world you shall have tribulation.

But He pointed to His torn and battered Self on a hill, and then added that only through the Cross in their lives will there ever be beauty of soul in the newness of life.

Broken things are precious. We eat broken bread because we share in the death of our Lord and his broken life. Broken flowers give perfume. Broken incense is used in adoration. A broken ship saved Paul and many other passengers on the way to Rome. Sometimes the only way the good Lord can get into some hearts is to break them.

Only those who walk in darkness ever see the stars.

And as far as wishing goes, I save my wishes for things that can still come true. There's no point in wasting them on the past.

The spirit of her invincible heart guided her through the shadows.