Quotes About Hope

I'm actually really excited to be off of 'General Hospital' because I know God orders my steps, and this only means He has a new adventure for me.

As I move forward and closer to God I think he's got something for me and I can feel it in my heart, as I keep making steps walking closer to God, I feel it more and more.

Spring is here, even in London N.1, and they can't stop you from enjoying it," he wrote in April 1946. "The atom bombs are piling up in the factories, the police are prowling through the cities, the lies are streaming from the loudspeakers, but the earth is still going round the sun, and neither the dictators, nor the bureaucrats, deeply as they disapprove of the process, are able to prevent it.

Enlightened types tended to place their faith in progress, freedom, and the improvability of mankind. As the intellectual historian Caroline Winterer put it, "To be enlightened was to be filled with hope."54 The opposite of enlightenment, states her predecessor Carl Becker, was "superstition, intolerance, tyranny."55

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

Nothing can erase the pain of losing someone you love you carry it with you for the rest of your life, however ever long that might be. The best you can hope for is that over time the wounds begin to heal, but no matter how strong we are no matter how hard we fight the scars always stay with us.

There is something uniquely depressing about the fact that the National Portrait Gallery's version of the Barack Obama 'Hope' poster previously belonged to a pair of lobbyists. Depressing because Mr. Obama's Washington was not supposed to be the lobbyists' Washington, the place we learned to despise during the last administration.

Anti-populism is all about despair. Its attitude toward ordinary humans is bitter. Its hope for human redemption is nil. Its vision of the common good is bleak. Its dark mood gives us books with titles like In Defense of Elitism and Against Democracy.

Optimists are usually wrong. But all the great change in history, positive change, was done by optimists.

I think we have lost our groove as a country. One of the reasons was the attack on 9/11. We got knocked off our game. From a country that always exported hope we went into the business of exporting fear.

Great hopes make great men.

Prayer: the key of the day and the lock of the night

Despair gives courage to a coward.

It is always darkest just before the day dawneth.

He that hopes no good fears no ill.

Our prayers are granted as soon as we have prayed, even though the process of fulfilling our requests has not yet begun.

Ask God to make you like David: an intercessor, even in the midst of your own great sins and great needs.

No farther seek his merits to disclose,Or draw his frailties from their dread abode,(There they alike in trembling hope repose,)The bosom of his Father and his God.

I decided that there was perhaps no ash quite so cold as the one left by an unrealized ambition...

The last best hope of life is that at some point during living it, all that you did wrong will suddenly teach you to do right.

a horribly protracted death that would stretch into the indefinite future, a death not in one month or two or even three but one that might go on and on, with the whole process of dying getting worse every single day for years and years and years.

Fortunately the Lord is patient and understanding, and does write straight with our crooked lines.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfilment of that hope never entirely removes.

The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.