Quotes About Hope

No matter how I prayed, no fairy godmother appeared. No elf or leprechaun or world-weary wizard materialised to provide the secret weapon against my foe. I remained alone in a mouse-infested cell, empty but for a pallet and the nightdress into which I now had to struggle.

gave me a going-away present on behalf of Rochdale, a book by Paul Tillich called The Courage To Be. Bob wrote inside, Cathy, read this sometime in your life when you need "to be." He was right. Later in my life when I was at a low that book pulled me through.

Finally, chocking with sobs, she said, "I was nice every time because I thought maybe this time she'll love me. I thought I just hadn't found the right combination of things to do. There was always the next time. Just one morning I wanted to come down the stairs and have her not say 'Good morning, monster.' If I worked hard enough, I'd find how to make her love me.

Thomas Hardy's words in his poem "In Tenebris II": "If way to the Better there be, it exacts a full look at the Worst.

Death is never an excuse to stop living.

Thank you to Martin Scorsese - I hope my son will marry your daughter.

My father always told us that if we will let God, He can use even our disappointments, even our annoyances to bring us a blessing. There's a practical way to start the process too: by thanking Him for whatever happens, no matter how disagreeable it seems.

The search for God begins at the point of need.

dont wish upon a star reach for one

To know God as He really is-in His essential nature and character-is to arrive at a citadel of peace that circumstances may storm, but can never capture.

the sound of tramping feet beat out a requiem for the old world - but no one could be sure where it might lead

It is said that the future narrows once we cease to believe it is eternal...

We don't think of this as a place where people come to die," the gravely cheerful intake counselor had said to us. "We think of it as a place where people come to live!" "To live dyingly,

One of the hardest things about parenting is that you just never know what the outcome will be. It's a total leap of faith. Even with decisions you feel fairly confident about (say, what to make for lunch), you just can't be sure of the consequences they'll have for this person you're raising. Will you like the adult this kid—your kid—becomes?

It's the anticipation I can't handle. Loss lurks around every corner, and how do we prepare?

I love you, but you want impossible things, Ash," he said, finally, and it was true. It still is. I want impossible things.

Ali Pomeroy, wherever you are. Come back to me.

There'll be days when I'm blue or angry or frustrated. Days when it seems like nothing's going right. Sometimes I feel lonely, or I might wish my life had taken a different turn or two. But when you've got the Holy Spirit living in your heart, Pete, you know for sure that God is walking with you. He's beside you and in you and all around you. And that's what I call joy.

I guess it's hard for people who are so used to things the way they are - even if they're bad - to change. 'Cause they kind of give up. And when they do, everybody kind of loses.

Sometimes you have to jumpstart the world just to get it to be what even the world admits it should be

Don't you dare give up on me.

You know, you think about who you might meet and when they might come. You always know that someday a door will open and in will come the one you've waited for. And then the waiting is done. And the rest of your life can begin. And the minute I looked up and saw you there, I thought, There he is.

Even if we had to go back, I decided it was worth it to ride that bus all the way out here. It was worth it just for Natalie to see the windmills. Even if she never saw anything like this again. Maybe at least she could hang on to the idea that there's something better out there, somewhere.

They just want to kill the pain. Everybody just wants to kill the pain.