Quotes About Hope

Only the promise of eternal growth made sense of eternal life. Kate

You don't take a traveler for a partner if you hope that the world will always stay the same. You do it because you can't quite break away, yourself, but you can't live without the promise of change hanging over you every day. That's what the border means, for a lot of people. The promise of change they'd never be able to make any other way.

Recalculate. Then show me sunrise again.

The wonderful thing about hope is that it has absolutely no effect on anything. Just throw the switch.

don't rely on death to be the climax of your stories. Dying isn't interesting. It's what we do while we're dying that matters.

Endure with a tenacious hope that cannot be found elsewhere.

I don't really understand the world anymore. But maybe there's some faint hope that the good people on both sides can come together.

We don't know in what state we shall meet again; but that we shall recognize each other and be together in eternity I am perfectly certain.

'Little Miss Sunshine' snowballed. It was a tiny movie. We shot it in 30 days, and it was really fun to do, but it was one of those small movies that you don't hold out huge hope for.

The gospel is only Good News if it gets there in time.

5Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him.

Never forget that what may look like God's insensitivity is nothing of the sort, but rather an invitation to draw closer to Him through persistent praying in faith.

22David replied, "I fasted and wept while the child was alive, for I said, 'Perhaps the LORD will be gracious to me and let the child live.' 23But why should I fast when he is dead? Can I bring him back again? I will go to him one day, but he cannot return to me.

2Then Shecaniah son of Jehiel, a descendant of Elam, said to Ezra, "We have been unfaithful to our God, for we have married these pagan women of the land. But in spite of this there is hope for Israel. 3Let us now make a covenant with our God to divorce our pagan wives and to send them away with their children. We will follow the advice given by you and by the others who respect the commands of our God. Let it be done according to the Law of God.

This doesn't make sense to me right now, but it's all going to make sense in eternity. It will produce something in eternity that would not have been there otherwise. So in faith I'm going to

As Christians, regardless of what cause we may have to be troubled, there is greater cause not to be.

doubt they had ever heard anyone sing in that dungeon before.

So reach out and receive the gift.

Do not ever give up trying - because eventually you will win." Judge Greg Mathis

A wise man from my home once told me that these mountains have seen far too much suffering and killing, and that each rock and every boulder you see represents a mujahadeen who died fighting either the Russians or the Taliban. Then the man went on to say that now that the fighting is finished, it is time to build a new era of peace-and the first step in that process is to take up the stones and start turning them into schools.

Despite everything that has befallen us, do we not continue to hold the destiny of this shattered and magnificent nation, together with the future of all our children-girls and boys alike-in the palm of our hands?

Let sorrowful longing dwell in your heart. Never give up, never lose hope. Allah says, "The broken ones are my beloved." Crush your heart. Be broken.

I've learned that terror doesn't happen because some group of people somewhere like Pakistan or Afghanistan simply decide to hate us. It happens because children aren't being offered a bright enough future that they have a reason to choose life over death.

Because most of the girls were still in mourning and all of them had lost their textbooks, even pencils and pens, Shaukat Ali began the first classes by reading to them from poetry and religious texts. "Reading, literature, and spirituality are good for the soul," he told them. "So we will start with these studies.