Quotes About Hope

The world...is full of resurrections... Every night that folds us up in darkness is a death; and those of you that have been out early, and have seen the first of the dawn, will know it - the day rises out of the night like a being that has burst its tomb and escaped into life.

You are a sorry creature, Flashman. I have failed in you. But even to you I must say, this is not the end. You cannot continue here, but you are young, Flashman, and there is time yet. Though your sins be as red as crimson, yet shall they be as white as snow. You have fallen very low, but you can be raised up again …

We never find what we set out hearts on. We ought to be glad of that.

I hope I live long enough to see every hungry school child in the world being fed under the so-called McGovern-Dole program.

I hope someday we will be able to proclaim that we have banished hunger in the United States, and that we've been able to bring nutrition and health to the whole world.

Faith works miracles. At least it allows time for them

Only time will set you free, just like me

It's hard to love There's so much to hate Hanging on to hope When there is no hope to speak of And the wounded skies above Say it's much too late So maybe we should all be praying for time

I thought of the places I would be leaving, of what they were and what they could become. I pictured trees returning to the bare slopes, fish and whales returning to the bay. I thought of what my children and grandchildren might find here, and of how those who worked the land and sea might prosper if this wild vision were to be realized.

The environmental movement up till now has necessarily been reactive. We have been clear about what we don't like. But we also need to say what we would like. We need to show where hope lies. Ecological restoration is a work of hope.

By rebuilding community, we will renew democracy and the hope we invest in it. We will develop political systems that are not so big that they cannot respond to us but not so small that they cannot meet the problems we face. We will achieve something that, paradoxically, we cannot realise alone: self-reliance. By helping each other, we help ourselves. The strong, embedded cultures

Reality can destroy the dream; why shouldn't the dream destroy reality?

Once more to new creation Awake, and death gainsay, For death is swallowed up of life, And Christ is risen today!

Imagine a man in the ditch,The wheels of the overturned wreckStill spinning—I don't mean he despairs, I mean if he does notHe sees in the manner of poetry

We shall meet in the place where there is no darkness.

You've got to dream a little bit if you're going to get somewhere.

No matter how serious the trial, how deep the distress, how great the affliction, God will never desert us, He never has, and He never will.

The saints should always remember that God sees not as man sees; that he does not willingly afflict his children, and that if he requires them to endure present privation and trial, it is that they may escape greater tribulations which would otherwise inevitably overtake them. If He deprives them of any present blessing, it is that he may bestow upon them greater and more glorious ones by-and by.

We may pass through the fiery furnace, we may pass through deep waters, but we shall not be consumed nor overwhelmed. We shall emerge from these trials and difficulties better and purer for them if we only trust in God.

Paul repeatedly promises Christians that nothing can separate them from the love of that God who is "for" them.

He himself would have had only the courage to live on, feeling death creep in closer year by year as once the darkness had crept in from the corners of the room when the lights were failing. ... He had known despair, but now he knew hope. He looked forward with confidence to the time when the sun would again be setting at the southern end of its long arc... It was not finished. The thing would go on.

For though despair is often close at hand, it never triumphs, and through all the story runs, a sustaining bond, the primal force which humanity shares with all earthly creatures, the sheer will to live.

But whether the new would follow the course which the old had followed, that he did not know, and now at last he was almost certain that he did not even desire that the cycle should be repeated. He suddenly thought of all that had gone to build civilization--of slavery and conquest and war and oppression.

When the sun has set, no candle can replace it.