Quotes About Hope

the beleaguered Christ-follower who's being pummeled by temptation doesn't cave in because he knows this life is brief and the next one isn't.

He'd been wrong, there was a light at the end of the tunnel, and it was a flamethrower.

And on the good days, when I felt as if I was making progress--I was scared then too.

Finding beauty in a broken world is creating beauty in the world we find.

The Eyes of the Future are looking back at us and they are praying for us to see beyond our own time.

I think we were all living with this cloud of depression over us that would forever linger, so whilst I can take or leave the content, if the joy is a false dawn or one that will never see the light of day, then so be it. If our spirits are momentarily lifted then that, I think is fine. We have, of course, had a lifetime to mull it over.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit

You don't have to die to go to hell.

With every year that I grow older, I also draw closer to (my loved ones) to the day when we will once again be together. So I march through the deepening shadows, serene and unafraid, because I know that at the end of my journey they will be waiting for me.

Sometimes, the person who could make you happiest is the one who waits patiently in the wings.

Some people make choices hoping for the best; Korsak had made a choice simply to avoid the worst.

we must be thankful that we are all together. And we must believe that there is a reason we are still alive

Overhead, the Amerikano planes buzz by, great birds swooping down with a vengeance. But who is winning? I cannot imagine the Amerikanos will win. How can they? They have lost once before, and how will they resupply themselves when their country is so far away? The Japanese need only jump north and they will be home. How I wish they would both go home.

there will come a day when this war shall end and we will have the sunlight on our faces again.

I prayed in my heart for a real father, since the one I had been given was a failure to me. That was my deepest wish, and my deepest sorrow.

I must wait, bide my time. There will be an opportunity. I need only keep my eyes open. Back

It's painful and terrible that youth is over, and with it that whole game of looking and longing and vying for attention, hoping for something, for some absolute transformation of everything. But it's also a reprieve to be let off that hook and know that you're simply in your own hands at last

There's only one way to live your life: facing forward.

Timing has a lot to do with the outcome of a raindance.

Here a few poor and stunted flowers stood with drooping heads, like a convent of consumptive girls, waiting for a ray of sunlight to dry out their leaves already half-rotten with the damp.

It is consoling that he who must judge us dwell in us to save us always from all of our miseries, and to pardon us.

That beautiful day passed just as the saddest ones do, since the most radiant of days has a tomorrow.

All God asks of you is good will. From the top of the ladder He looks lovingly upon you, and soon, touched by your fruitless efforts, He will Himself come down, and, taking you in His Arms, will carry you to His Kingdom never again to leave Him. But should you cease to raise your foot, you will be left for long on the earth.

El amor jamás encuentra pretexto de imposibilidad porque cree que todo lo puede y le conviene». La prudencia humana, por el contrario, tiembla a cada paso y, por decirlo así, no se atreve a apoyar el pie.