Quotes About Hope

It's a fine world, though rich in hardships at times.

Live through it," Call said. "That's all we can do.

Hopeless causes are the only ones worth fighting for. The fight for the taxpayer is the most hopeless of them all.

Fear and pessimism make no sense when victory is guaranteed.

Their faith and trust in God wasn't shown in a buoyant confidence that God would come through. It was shown in the trusting act of obedience—gathering to pray even though they were sure it was a lost cause.

We're called to live a life of hope, humility, and wisdom.

When they prayed for rain, they carried an umbrella.

The statement in Daniel 12:1-4 (NRSV) that "many of those who sleep in the dust of the earth shall awake, some to everlasting life, and some to shame and everlasting contempt" is usually cited as the earliest clear expression of this hope in the Bible.

If the Spirit of him who raised Jesus from the dead dwells in you, he who raised Christ Jesus from the dead will give life to your mortal bodies also through his Spirit which dwells in you.

Don't ever, ever give up. Moses was once a basket case.

Ventetida var best, eller verst, alt ettersom, når det først skjedde, når man var der, så var det liksom over allerede og noe annet som var sværere og finere eller styggere og jævligere vinka i det fjerne. Og så var det bare å gå i gang med å vente, glede, grue seg igjen.

There should be fireworks, at least, when a dream dies.

Life was like a batch of biscuits without the baking powder: flat, flat, flat.

My bounce-around life had taught me that dreams were dangerous things -- they look solid in your mind, but you just try to reach for them. It's like gathering clouds.

The year has held its ups and downs for me; I'm sure it has for you, too. I'm counting on the year ending on a note of joy (and gingerbread!) and look forward to a new year brimming with promise and peace.

Like her creator, Hattie is a terminal optimist; what else is there to say?

We have made some great strides in terms of treating various types of cancer with early detection. The success rate of recovery for many people today is better than it was a decade or two ago so we can't give up. Yes, we would all love a quick "cure all" but that is not reality. Until then, we all are in this together and we have to keep working towards more progress!

Our work-worn hands, our strong legs, our tree-trunk backs, our throats and mouths speaking spells, singing incantations, and screaming out warnings, our bodies and our stories and our ceaseless working, loving, fighting for remembrance of our past and hope for our future, the safety of our loved ones, the knowledge of our ways, all these have been the true magickal tools of our survival.

What tho' the clouds are o'er us? They cannot quench the flame That burns in freemen's bosoms-- 'Tis deathless as his name; Another year, and brightly Shall shine our clouded sun, No shadow o'er our country, The land of Washington.

Dirmit looked at the spot left by her mother's finger. Then she ran her eyes across the four walls and counted all the marks that had been stamped there to predict that they would be abandoned, they would go mad, they would be left to starve without a roof over their heads, or they would fall into evil ways. 'We've made so many markes for one another!' she reflected. Then she got up and started to scratch off all the spots.

When I'm ready, I plan to adopt. I still believe in family.

I'll never stop dreaming that one day we can be a real family, together, all of us laughing and talking, loving and understanding, not looking at the past but only to the future.

But I think the most important thing those books gave me was a kind of faith. My books promised me that life wasn't just made up of workaday tasks and prosaic things. The world is bigger and more colorful and more important than that.

I know God can't answer every prayers exactly the way you want Him to. But I couldn't help thinking that He hadn't been doing very well by me lately. Even so, I prayed. It wasn't a proper prayer, just a cry for help, but I felt He was listening.