Quotes About Hope

May the road rise up to meet you May the wind be always at your back May the sun shine warm upon your face The rains fall soft upon your fields And until we meet again May God hold you in the palm of His hand.

James Lee Burke

I'm tired of sackcloth and

James Lee Burke

James Lee Burke

one of the basic tenets of A.A.—that there is no possession more valuable than a sober sunrise, and any drunk who demands more out of life than that will probably

So that's how to the dark tower I came.

I still wanted to believe George Orwell's admonition that people are always better than we think they are.

You treat loss just like death. It visits everyone and you don't let it prevail in your life.

I will not accept my daughter's death. I will find a way to pull her back through the veil or untether myself and lie down in the bottom of a boat that has no oars and float down the Columbia and into the Pacific, where she will be waiting for me somewhere beyond the sun.

He had bludgeoned the Southern will to resist the military strength of the United States. He had destroyed any realistic hope of ultimate Confederate success, and the people of the South realized that the Confederate armies could not protect them. The

But nobody was really desperate.

The future is a strange monster. The less there is of it, the more it frightens.

Book knew, however, that God provided. It might not always seem as though He did. Indeed, to the untrained eye it sometimes looked as though the Lord's methods were just plain berserk. But in the end, all said and done, He always came through. It was a cornerstone of Book's belief, the rock he had rebuilt his life upon.

Even the brightest of dreams-come-true had shadowy recesses.

We'll get this sorted out," Galen said, trying to sound optimistic. "You're not through with us yet.

The Empire was quickly becoming the other , a featureless grey enemy that species of varied sorts would be able to stave off only if they united, all differences set aside. It was almost heartening to witness the dawn of hope, as cautious and fragile as it was.

Whereas underprivileged strata of society religiously hope for a better future, the overprivileged, disavowing any idea of transcendence, "live for the present by exploiting their great past.

a solitary middle-aged man in the August of life looking for a few more Aprils, an

Son, a blessing favors them that needs it. Don't matter how it comes. It just matters that it does.

God I am looking for the one thing I have never felt but once, and I would walk through heaven and earth to find it, if he would but let me find him, so that I could feel it; and if I were to feel it again I would never leave that feeling, or him that gave it to me. - The Dreamer

because in her heart it was proof that God was forever generous with His gifts: hope, love, truth, and the belief in the indestructability of the good in all people.

the Statue of Liberty, a gigantic copper reminder that this city was a grinding factory that diced the poor man's dreams worse than any cotton gin or sugarcane field from the old country.

It's God's world. He washes you clean. He makes you whole. He puts rain in your garden and sunshine in your heart. Clarence