Quotes About Hope

Sometimes we love with nothing more than hope. Sometimes we cry with everything except tears.

It's forgiveness that makes us what we are. Without forgiveness, our species would've annihilated itself in endless retributions. Without forgiveness, there would be no history. Without that hope, there would be no art, for every work of art is in some way an act of forgiveness. Without that dream, there would be no love, for every act of love is in some way a promise to forgive. We live on because we can love, and we love because we can forgive.

Your Heavenly Father's love elevates you to a place where you can dream big dreams— where you can live with purpose, unafraid.

No matter how many times you failed or have fallen, no matter how many times you've denied God, He will not deny you.

God's love sweeps away everything before it. It sweeps away your past, your pain, your fears, your regrets.

I know absolutely nothing about where I'm going. I'm fine with that. I'm happy about it. Before, I had nothing. I had no life, no friends, and no family really, and I didn't really care. I had nothing, and nothing to lose, and then I knew loss. What I cared about was gone; it was all lost. Now I have everything to gain; everything is a clean slate. It's all blank pages waiting to be written on. It's all about going forward. It's all about uncertainty and possibilities.

I hate the calendar, which is both a circle and a straight line, a wheel and an arrow, grinding each anniversary, each day a reminder of my failures, my lost plans, unfulfilled objectives and wishes, the days aren't taken off the calendar, subtracted one by one, but added, another small stone accumulated, another foot moved ahead, the arrow flying forward instead of falling back to earth, when all I want is a complete stop.

My character had been in the chair for seven years. He had gone through his anger, depression, drug and alcohol abuse. He had gone through everything, now he was up, he was happy, he was filled with his dream.

To all whom the cloud of depression has not yet lifted, there is hope. Let's walk together through these pages on a journey that brings great rewards. May you sense a new direction and peace.

I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.

Whether you're working with kindergartners or adults, 8th-graders or college students, you undertake what you do, as educator and activist William Ayers puts it, "with hope and purpose but without guarantees.

Just as many questions might be started for debate among people sitting up at night as to the kind of thing that sunshine is, and then the simple appearing of it in all its beauty would render any verbal description superfluous, so every calculation that tries to arrive conjecturally at the future state will be reduced to nothingness by the object of our hopes, when it comes upon us.

In the same manner as the sea, those who are swept away from the course leading to the harbor correct their aim by a clear mark, looking for a lighthouse on high, or a certain mountain appearing. In the same manner Scripture by the example of Abraham and Sarah will direct us once more to the safe harbor of the divine will for those who have drifted out in the sea of life with a mind lacking a navigator.

Maybe it was always simple: Loss surrounds us. Who would deny it? We ourselves are loss, are lost.

I had dreams, but I didn't have the sense that they would necessarily work out. They seemed very far-fetched.

I want to come across as a positive person.

So much has broken away already, there is nothing to drink but air, nothing left to walk on but water, yet the fasting heart grows full.

Gretta Mulrooney

Gretta Mulrooney

Hope is tricky, slippery; it's a door opening and then slamming in your face. The

God has seen your tears and heard your prayers. Do not grieve. The Little One will not die. Do not allow the doctors to bother him too much.

Your child will not die.

There's one thing I always wanted to do before I quit–retire!

The only real laughter comes from despair.