Quotes About Hope

Obviously losing is very difficult, but when you're rebuilding you know you're going through stages, it's going to be tough, but as long as you draft the players and you see a bright future, I think it's going to be lights at the end of the tunnel, it's going to be very good, not only for me, but for the franchise and that's what's most important.

All he had to do was simultaneously solve several multiple-variable equations, and hope he'd get it right.

Remember—write this down, it's critical—nothing fuels a story quite like hope.

I didn't know why something that started off feeling so good had to wind up feeling so bad. Love was a big word and it covered a lot of territory. You could spend your whole life chasing after it and wind up with nothing, be an old bitter guy with long nose hair and ear hair and no teeth, hanging out in bars, looking for somebody your age, but the chances of success went down then. After a while you got too many strikes against you.

Asking God to take her. How does anybody even know what God is? Other than love.

When you don't know what the answer is, you know *Who* the answer is.

If we look for ways to get rid of necessary pain, we'll be disillusioned or misled. For people who define real change as the elimination of inevitable struggle, the final chapters will be terribly disappointing.

There's never a moment in all our lives, from the day we trusted Christ till the day we see Him, when God is not longing to bless us. At every moment, in every circumstance, God is doing us good. He never stops. It gives Him too much pleasure. God is not waiting to bless us after our troubles end. He is blessing us right now, in and through those troubles. At this exact moment, He is giving us what He thinks is good.

Evangelicals sometimes expect too much or, to put it more precisely, we look for a kind of change God hasn't promised. It's possible to expect too little, but under-expectation is usually a cynical reaction to dashed hopes for too much. We manage to interpret biblical teaching to support our longing for perfection. As a result, we measure our progress by standards we will never meet until heaven.

There's no higher dream than experiencing God as He moves through every circumstance of life to an eternal encounter with Himself where transformed people will enjoy perfectly loving community around Jesus Christ, the source of Perfect Love.

Transcendence as the only real alternative to extinction

I hope,' he would say, 'I will not disappoint him too badly for becoming … the things I have become.

If anybody had a reason to become a delinquent, to become a criminal, to be angry at the man, to be angry at the white man, to be angry at America, it's my dad, but he did not feel that way at all.

We will survive, Galm 1!

Yo buddy, still alive? And thanks friend. See you again

When God says that our faith is the substance of what we hope for, what we are expecting, He's giving us an open invitation with no limits and no boundaries.

When would insight, knowledge, hope, and beauty meld?

It's the oldest story in the world. You want him back, don't you?

American actors, historical, familial, political, theatrical, move blindly ahead toward a future that never is, and never can be, clear.

You're the cure? I hope you come in a portable version, like a laptop. Can you find me a boyfriend while you're at it?

twould appear that if Fred Lemish spent half as much time writing as he did hoping Dinky Adams would say "I love you," he'd have a ten-foot shelf. And if Dinky Adams spent half as much time legitimately planting and fertilizing as he did scattering his seeds to the winds, he'd be New York's leading gardener. Though, of course, as we shall continue to see, he already is.

The little boy in me still believes everything is possible. Mom, you taught me this. And you lied. But so does art and so does hope.

Do you think they'll find a cure before I. . . How strange that sounds when you say it out loud for the first time.

After all, beauty has only three possible endings, & only one of them is bearable.