Quotes About Hope

and sometimes this daily disappointment, this constant agony of hope deferred, would bring me to my knees by that door begging her to open to me, crying to her in every term of passionate endearment and persuasion that tortured heart of man could think to use.

She returned to her mantra: something would happen, something would turn up, it always had before, it would again.

Chas Newkey-Burden

A pessimist is a man who thinks all women are bad. An optimist is a man who hopes they are.

Bir çiçeÄŸi öldürebilirsiniz ama bahar? asla öldüremezsiniz.

Veremos si algun día, algún minero tome un pico con placer y vaya a envenenar sus pulmones con consciente alegría. Dicen que allá, donde viene la llamarada roja que deslumbra hoy al mundo, es así. Yo no sé.

What is unbelief but the despair, dictated by the dominant powers, that nothing can really change?

To pray is to learn to believe in in a transformation of self and world, which seems, empirically, impossible.

I don't know how to put them down." "I know. That's why we're waiting for the sun to come out." "Are you on Instagram?" "No.

I hope to make a positive, productive contribution, as cheesy as that may sound.

The solid, middle-class values of hard work, responsibility, family, community, and faith my father talked about tirelessly from Iowa to New York, he lived at home. The hopes he had for his family and for me, he had for all Americans. I think Americans understood this.

Love. Not the kind you see in the movies or hear about on the radio. The real kind. The kind that gets beaten down and bloody, yet perseveres. The kind that hopes even when hope seems foolish. The kind that can forgives. The kind that believes in healing. The kind that can sit in silence and feel renewed. The real kind of love. It's rare and we have it..

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you at every time in your life.

If grass can grow through cement, love can find you every time.

If you could bottle it, everyone would have one!

Many stories of the Bible tell of a person who prayed multiple times. Jesus himself prayed three times in the Garden of Gethsemane (see Matthew 26:36–44). Paul asked three times for his "thorn in the flesh" to be removed (2 Corinthians 12:7–9 KJV). And Elijah prayed to God seven times for rain before the drops began to pour from the sky (see 1 Kings 18). Perseverance in prayer is never nagging. God loves to hear your voice.

If I had not felt certain that every additional trial was ordered by infinite love and mercy, I could not have survived my accumulated sufferings. —ADONIRAM JUDSON (1788–1850), American missionary to Burma (now Myanmar)

He comes to us in the brokenness of our health, in the shipwreck of our family lives, in the loss of all possible peace of mind, even in the very thick of our sins. He saves us in our disasters, not from them. . . . He meets us all in our endless and inescapable losing. —ROBERT FARRAR CAPON (1925–), American priest and author

O what peace we often forfeit,      O what needless pain we bear,      All because we do not carry      Everything to God in prayer! —"WHAT A FRIEND WE HAVE IN JESUS" BY JOSEPH SCRIVEN

Besides, if comics have taught us anything, it's that death is rarely a permanent condition." "But we're not superheroes," May argued. "Speak for yourself," Jackdaw told her.

The world is full of things we can't control. All we can do is keep trying, keep working.

I knew you'd come, once you saw the site," Libby said. "I knew you'd find me.

But tonight she inhaled, pushing the air past the tightness, feeling around for the lump in her throat. It was there. The odds were fair that it always would be. But tonight it was smaller, and she did not sob, but smile.

Yes, bad things happened to you—really bad things. But you survived them! Now that chapter's closed, and you can… well, you don't have to forget any of it. You don't have to pretend it never happened. But you've got the whole rest of your life to live, so how are you gonna live it?