Quotes About Hope

He that despairs degrades the Deity, and seems to intimate that He is insufficient, or not just to His word; and in vain hath read the scriptures, the world, and man.

Man could not live by darkness alone, one point of light he must have for salvation -- one point of light.

I have heard that death takes us away from ill things, not from good. I have heard that when we pronounce the name of man we pronounce the belief of immortality.

Every man contemplates an angel in his future self.

Rejoice that man is hurled, From change to change unceasingly, His soul's wings never furled!

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

Affliction is not sent in vain, young man, from that good God, who chastens whom he loves.

One should never lose hope. Homosexuality can strike any straight man at any age.

No man will be found in whose mind airy notions do not sometimes tyrannize, and force him to hope or fear beyond the limits of sober probability.

Call not that man wretched, who whatever else he suffers as to pain inflicted, or pleasure denied, has a child for whom he hopes and on whom he doats.

That difference do you think you can make, one man in all this madness?

Always walking along despite the dangers and adversities, despite the injustices and horrors, trusting in God so as not to despair of men and events.

still hope leads men to venture; and no one ever yet put himself in peril without the inward conviction that he would succeed in his design.

If men were basically evil, who would bother to improve the world instead of giving it up as a bad job at the outset?

God has bestowed two gifts on man: hope and ignorance. Ignorance is the better of the two.

So often we have a kind of vague, wistful longing that the promises of Jesus should be true. The only way really to enter into them is to believe them with the clutching intensity of a drowning man.

Nor dread nor hope attend a dying animal; a man awaits his end dreading and hoping all.

There is mercy in every place. And mercy, encouraging thought gives even affliction a grace and reconciles man to his lot.

The love of letters is the forlorn hope of the man of letters. His ruling passion is the love of fame.

Men ardently pursue truth, assuming it will be angels' bread when found.

There's hope a great man's memory may outlive his life half a year.

I felt the exultancy of a man just released from slavery and ready to set the universe on fire.

A man really and practically looking onwards to an immortal life, on whatever grounds, exhibits to us the human soul in an enobled attitude.

The hope of remaking the world is indispensable in the struggle of oppressed men and women.