Quotes About Hope

Our long national nightmare is over.

I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your president by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.

My fellow Americans, our long national nightmare is over. (On succeeding Richard M Nixon as president)

My hope is that we can leave behind preconceived notions and search for what the world and the Bible actually tell us about the God of creation.

I simply ask you to see that there is only one thing to do when we fall, and that is to get up, and go on with the life that is set in front of us, and try and do the good of which our hands are capable for all the people who come in our way...

Here we are, alive, and you and I will have to make it what we can.

I bent my head and breathed the fresh new scent of her. I looked into her deep blue eyes and saw reflected there the dawn of my own new life. This little girl seemed to me, at that moment, answer enough to all my questions. To have saved this small, singular one—this alone seemed reason enough that I lived. I knew then that this was how I was meant to go on: away from death and toward life, from birth to birth, from seed to blossom, living my life amongst wonders.

To take a people who were traveling apace the broadway to hell, and to be able to turn them, and set their face to God. . . . It is what we must strive for.

I do not propose to go on as I have been, feeding on the gall of my own grief. For you grieve, and yet you live, and are useful, and bring life to others.

I cannot say that I have faith anymore. Hope, perhaps. We have agreed that it will do for now.

Where there is an unknowable, there is a promise.

An illusion which makes me happy is worth a verity which drags me to the ground.

Winston Churchill is always expecting rabbits to come out of an empty hat.

I have been dying for twenty years, now I am going to live.

Immortality is the glorious discovery of Christianity.

Our hope of immortality does not come from any religion, but nearly all religions come from that hope.

I wish to believe in immortality - I wish to live with you forever.

No one could ever meet death for his country without the hope of immortality.

There is no death! the stars go down to rise upon some fairer shore.

For tho' from out our bourne of time and place The flood may bear me far, I hope to see my Pilot face to face When I have crost the bar.

I've just learned about his illness; let's hope it's nothing trivial.

I wish you all the joy that you can wish.

Injustice never rules forever.

The path of the just is as the shining light, that shineth more and more unto the perfect day.