Quotes About Hope

As Bertie Wooster once phrased it, they experienced some difficulty in detecting the bluebird.

The human mind is readily swayed this way or that in times of doubt, especially when hope and fear are struggling for the mastery, though usually it is boastful, over-confident, and vain.

What do I hope for? If not a cure, then a remission. And what do I want back? In the most beautiful apposition of two of the simplest words in our language: the freedom of speech.

If you Iive long enough, if you don't fall in love too easily, and if you keep your hatred pure– wonderful things can happen.

Anyone who uses 'childhood' and 'dream' in the same sentence usually gets my attention.

so much the greater is the triumph of faith in nevertheless believing.

But George knows he can't do that. Because, absurdly, inadequately, in spite of himself, almost, he is a representative of the hope. And the hope is not false. No. It's just that George is like a man trying to sell a real diamond for a nickel, on the street. The diamond is protected from all but the tiniest few, because the great hurrying majority can never stop to dare to believe that it could conceivably be real.

Lament is missional because it keeps the world before God, and it draws God into the world – with the longing that God should act, and the faith that he ultimately will.

Sometimes, Thanien, you simply have to stop letting the past define your life and live for the future instead.

For whilst I live, here lives my soul's sole hope, And when I die, here shall my spirit walk.

Faith isn't an act of intelligence, it's an act of imagination.

That's the scary thing about hope, she said. If you let it go too long it turns into faith.

I think I'm what they call a never-was.

After all the evidence is in--after you've run all the facts by everything you know--and you're still lost, you have to do some things on faith.

We know there's going to be nothing but pain, but we go back again and again.

Scratch a cynic and you will find a disappointed romantic.

Hope is merely another face of desire. And desire is a motherfucker.

Hope is bulletproof, truth just hard to hit

In fact, he sorely hoped that it would happen, because otherwise, the world made no sense, there was no justice, and life was just a tangled ball of chaos.

Why understand when you can believe?

Hope is merely another face of desire.

Henceforth and from now on, I decree that whenever something bad happens to me, there shall be bunnies around. So it shall be written.

She was meaning and order and light, and now that she's gone, chaos falls like a dark leaden cloud.

Action based on hope just felt better than the paralysis of certainty.