Quotes About Hope

I like it when a flower or a little tuft of grass grows through a crack in the concrete. It's so fuckin' heroic.

No matter how dark the moment, love and hope are always possible.

Of griefes (like Greeks on Ilion). Alas, what one survives To be my refuge?

Things will be alright. People need to hear that. Life is good, just as it is. There isn't anything that I would change about my life.

Memory is not so brilliant as hope, but it is more beautiful, and a thousand times as true.

As Joseph Conrad said, we need to be taught when young to hope, to love, to put our trust in life.

If you can't have faith in what is held up to you for faith, you must find things to believe in yourself, for a life without faith in something is too narrow a space to live.

What faith in man must in our new world beat, Thinking how once he saw before his face The west and all the host of stars retreat Into the silent infinite of space!

La resurrección de Jesús no es un hecho aislado que proporcione a las personas una confianza cálida y una esperanza de una resurrección futura; es el comienzo de la misma resurrección escatológica.

The eschatological glory is inseparably related to the sufferings of Christ (1:11).

The full truth will be disclosed when "the day dawns and the morning star rises in your hearts" (1:19) — at the parousia.

The church was an eschatological congregation, not because it had experienced the blessings of the messianic age but because it was the people designated for the future eschatological age.

The future Kingdom has invaded the present order to bring to human beings the blessings of the Age to Come.

The time of fulfillment has come; but the Day of the Lord remains an eschatological event in the indeterminate future.

While eternal life is eschatological, the central emphasis of the Fourth Gospel is not to show people the way of life in the Age to Come but to bring to them a present experience of this future life.

Joy is primarily a religious sentiment that finds its deepest satisfaction in the Lord. Therefore one can rejoice even when he or she is sorrowing (2 Cor. 6:10) or experiencing physical sufferings (Col. 1:24). One can rejoice in the gospel in the midst of severe afflictions (1 Thess. 1:6).

In fact, Christ's resurrection was itself the first act of the final resurrection. It is the "first fruits" of which the eschatological resurrection will be the harvest (1 Cor. 15:20). Therefore

It is never too late to be what we might have been.

A woman's hopes are woven of sunbeams; a shadow annihilates them.

We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

I desire no future that will break the ties with the past.

If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

It is never too late to be what you might have been.