Quotes About Hope

A scar is a prayer of gratitude for that which remains.

Scars tell us more about the future than the past, about how we can live strong despite any pain we've been through.

The cold dull glow of winter warms to the colorful brilliance of springtime.

The treasure of self is buried under the rainbow and yet glows beyond the sun.

An aging man cannot rewrite his youth but a youth may rewrite his own future.

It's only a matter of inches, but skipping gets us just that much closer to heaven.

Skipping turns — moping into hoping, pity into giddy, sad into glad, lazy into crazy, old into bold, tired into wired!

And I'll skip to Heaven on my own two feet.

I honor health as the first muse, and sleep as the condition of health. Sleep benefits mainly by the sound health it produces; incidentally also by dreams, into whose farrago a divine lesson is sometimes slipped. Life is in short cycles or periods; we are quickly tired, but we have rapid rallies. A man... sinks into deep sleep and wakes with renewed youth, with hope, courage, fertile in resources, and keen for daring adventure.

A smile is as good as a prayer...

If you didn't start out the day with a smile, it's not too late to start practicing for tomorrow.

The last best hope of earth, two trillion dollars in debt, is spinning out of control, and all we can do is stare at a flickering cathode-ray tube as Ollie answers questions on TV while the press, resolutely irrelevant as ever, asks politicians if they have committed adultery. From V-J Day 1945 to this has been, my fellow countrymen, a perfect nightmare.

I like fairy tales, and I like dreaming. I try to weave the reality into the dream.

City of Bright Moonlight.

Mother always says that when things seem to be in a tangle to us it's just that God is executing an especially intricate and marvelous pattern in our lives, and we must be pliable in His hands, so as not to hinder. Lord, have Thy way with me today!

Dear Father," she prayed, "please take care of this for me. Don't let me have to go anywhere or do anything with that MacCallummore man, please, dear Lord." When she arose she looked about her with eyes that were touched with peace again. Now she mustn't just sit here and brood over this thing. She had given it into God's hands, and that was all there was to do at present.

She had a feeling as she listened that she had been sitting in a dark place all her life, and that during the last three weeks light had slowly begun to break. It seemed that tonight the light was like glory all around her. These people actually lived with God, referred everything to Him, wanted nothing that He did not send. They were in a distinct and startling sense a separated people, and she was beginning to long with all her heart that she might truly be one with them.

O let me ne'er forget That though the wrong seems oft so strong, God is the ruler yet.

instead of seething with indignation over injustice, one must expect to take it for granted, and leave with God the responsibility of doing away with it.

He had been turned out of Eden. The angel with the flaming sword had bidden him no more think to enter. He must go forth and labor, but God was not dead.

It would be well, in our praying, to sometimes lift the head and see whether the answer to our prayers is not shining in the heavens or standing joy-clothed beside us, or even lying at our feet waiting to be recognized.

The Lord cares for His own, even in little things." "Do you mean nothing ever happens against your wishes and prayers?" asked Eden almost breathlessly. "Oh, no, but I mean that when you leave it all to Him, He works it out marvelously. I don't mean it always comes the way you have planned it, or want it even, but that if it doesn't, you know it will work out in the end to be even better than you wanted, if you are patient and rest in Him.

Not every skin-teeth is a smile 'Massa' if you see me smiling when you pass if you see me bending when you ask Know that I smile know that I bend only the better to rise and strike again

Whatever else be lost among the years, Let us keep Christmas still a shining thing; Whatever doubts assail us, or what fears, Let us hold close one day, remembering Its poignant meaning for the hearts of men. Let us get back our childlike faith again.