Quotes About Hope

So little cause for carolingsOf such ecstatic soundWas written on terrestrial thingsAfar or nigh around,That I could think there trembled throughHis happy good-night airSome blessed hope, whereof he knewAnd I was unaware.

Love is a possible strength in an actual weakness.

Tell me now, Angel, do you think we shall meet again after we are dead? I want to know. He kissed her to avoid a reply at such a time. "O, Angel--I fear that means no!" said she, with a suppressed sob. "And I wanted so to see you again-- so much, so much! What--not even you and I, Angel, who love each other so well?

God's creatures who cried themselves to sleep stirred to cry again.

The infidel may well despond, When sorrow's tear he sheds, His bosom knows no hope beyond The dust on which he treads.

Fear not, but trust in Providence Wherever thou may'st be.

Oh! virtue knows no hopeless grief, 'Tis sin that must despair; The true believer finds relief In solitary pray'r.

Pack clouds away, and welcome day,With night we banish sorrow.

O God! O God! that it were possibleTo undo things done; to call back yesterday!That Time could turn up his swift sandy glass,To untell the days, and to redeem these hours.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope the same, without such opinion, despair.

And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.

envisioned them in rocking chairs forty years down

The results of political changes are hardly ever those which their friends hope or their foes fear.

Science reckons many prophets, but there is not even a promise of a Messiah.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

I tremble for my country when I reflect that God is just that his justice cannot sleep forever.

My theory has always been, that if we are to dream, the flatteries of hope are as cheap, and pleasanter, than the gloom of despair.

But would the honest patriot, in the full tide of successful experiment, abandon a government which has so far kept us free and firm, on the theoretic and visionary fear that this government, the world's best hope, may by possibility want energy to preserve itself?

My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.

The spiritual journey can be a lonely road in the beginning. Later God will give us new friends. God does not take anything away except to give us something better.

We know in spite of our weakness that God will give us the strength to get through every trial and temptation. "As the Father has loved me, so I have loved you" (John 15:9).

The head that once was crowned with thorns Is crowned with glory now.

Whoever saves one life, saves the world entire.

The List is Life.", Schindler's List