Quotes About Hope

hope resides in the future, while perspective and wisdom are almost always found by looking to the past.

The road to Easter goes through Good Friday. The road to new life goes through the death of the old. The road to resurrection goes through crucifixion. Jesus calls us to walk that road, the road he walked.

Believe In The Knockout Power Of The Lord!

I work for a few at home who are devoted. People who are up now. Either they have some sort of bladder problem or they're extremely drunk. This is my crowd, these are the people I hope to get.

Where you see darkness, I see stars . - Laech Min-Glsain, from Poems, Prayers and Meditations on the Force, edited by Kozem Pel, Disciple of the Whills

You cannot lose what is inside you," Chirrut said. "You can only misplace it. The task, then, is to find it again.

I'm hoping Lor San Tekka knows where to find my brother, Poe. And Luke Skywalker may be the only hope we have left.

One thing he'd learned time and again was that you never could tell what kind of private hell people were fighting through.

There is no seed of a god which has perished, neither has he who belongs to him. You will not perish, who belongs to him.

I've written this book for one reason: to offer a sense of hope, possibility, and empowerment in a world that often makes us feel small, ineffective, and helpless.

Patience means awaiting God's time, without doubting God's love.

The dream is never the dream. It's a bunch of compromises and, if you're lucky, a few decent people now and then.

What had he hoped for back then? What kind of future had he dreamed of when he'd stared up at the lightning-fork crack in the ceiling?

Follow your dreams, they say. But what no one ever tells you is what you have to give up in the process. The sacrifices. The thousand ways your life can go to hell while you keep your eyes on the horizon, waiting for that sun to rise. From 'Or She Dies'.

You don't ask why clarity comes, you just hope it does." Tim

The children's happy cries rise and fall in the evening light as imperfect and irrevocable as the past, and he stands in the yard of his father's house, waiting, poised motionless on the frontier of the future, until it is too dark to see.

The principle suffering of the poor is shame and disgrace. It is a toxic shame -- a global sense of failure of the whole self. This shame can seep so deep down... To this end, one hopes (against all human inclination) to model not the "one false move" God but the "no matter whatness" of God. You seek to imitate the kind of God you believe in, where disappointment is, well, Greek to Him. You strive to live the black spiritual that says, "God looks beyond our fault and sees our need.

Terror melting into wonder, then slipping into peace.

You don't really keep vigil; it keeps you-suspended in awkward silence and dead air-desperate for anything at all to stir some hope out of these murky waters and make things vital again.

We constantly lived in the paradox of precariousness. The money was never there when you needed it, and it was always on time.

Not only does God think we're firme, it is God's joy to have us marinate in that.

I just trust people and they sense everything's gonna be alright.

If you believe you're a poet, then you're saved.

but if a girl were possible as I am possible then marriage would be possible...