Quotes About Hope

with food and drink and magic spells Seeking some novel way to frustrate death.

why one should pray to a power whose decisions one can hardly hope to influence

lose him. To this end and purpose, let all thy prayer be, and see what will be the event.

Because a thing seems difficult for you, do not think it impossible for anyone to accomplish.

For us in Easy Company, a new hope stirred. It wasn't a carefree hope, one that fills a man with energy. But an undeclared hope that drives a man to caution. It's when you sense you might actually come through this thing alive.

Eschatology is not, of course, about the destruction of the earth, but about its transfiguration, not about the end of the world, but about the end of evil, injustice, violence—and imperialism.

God's dream for us is not simply peace of mind, but peace on earth.

But Easter means that the powers of this world do not have the last word.

we are to participate with God in bringing about the world promised by Christmas.

The pre-Easter Jesus is dead and gone; he's nowhere anymore. This statement does not deny Easter in any way, but simply recognizes that the corpuscular Jesus, the flesh-and-blood Jesus, is a figure of the past.

William Sloane Coffin said when his son Alex died in a car wreck at the age of twenty-four. Ten days later, Coffin delivered Alex's eulogy at Riverside Church in New York City, where he was senior minister. Among many other things, he said this:

Here are the three main strands of second-temple hope. YHWH becomes king, Israel will return from exile, evil will be defeated, and YHWH himself will return to Zion.

Amicitiae nostrae memoriam spero sempiternam fore

Nemo enim est tam senex qui se annum non putet posse vivere. (No one is so old as to think that he cannot live one more year.)

As she crossed the street, a rumor of sunshine stood behind the clouds.

All the same, she cries on the front porch, and I wish I could go over there and hold her. I wish I could rescue her and hold her in my arms. How do people live like this? How do they survive? And maybe that's why I'm here. What if they can't anymore?

With all the wonders Moses was performing, there was one I did not think would ever come to pass: that we would finally be reunited. That I would once again kiss his neck as I had loved to do. That I would see him clasp his sons to his breast.

We yearned for the future. How did we learn it, that talent for insatiability?

I believe in the resistance as I believe there can be no light without shadow; or rather, no shadow unless there is also light.

People cry at weddings for the same reason they cry at happy endings: because they so desperately want to believe in something they know is not credible.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

After everything that's happened, how can the world still be so beautiful? Because it is.

Faith is only a word, embroidered.

If I am good enough and quiet enough, perhaps after all they will let me go; but it's not easy being quiet and good, it's like hanging on to the edge of a bridge when you've already fallen over; you don't seem to be moving, just dangling there, and yet it is taking all your strength.