Quotes About Hope

All love is lost but upon God alone.

Navajo heaven is not a solemn gray high refuse heap for humble failures.

Faith is love taking the form of aspiration.

The great hope of society is in individual character.

There are seasons, in human affairs, of inward and outward revolution, when new depths seem to be broken up in the soul, when new wants are unfolded in multitudes, and a new and undefined good is thirsted for. There are periods when the principles of experience need to be modified, when hope and trust and instinct claim a share with prudence in the guidance of affairs when, in truth, to dare is the highest wisdom.

You cannot fight against the future. Time is on our side.

I decline to accept the end of man.

The salvation of the world is in man's suffering.

I give you the mausoleum of all hope and desire...I give it to you not that you may remember time, but that you might forget it now and then for a moment and not spend all of your breath trying to conquer it. Because no battle is ever won he said. They are not even fought. The field only reveals to man his own folly and despair, and victory is an illusion of philosophers and fools.

The tragedy is that so many have ambition and so few have ability.

You have to hate how the world goes on.

I continued to doubt. But I was not afraid. I just didn't want this to end.

Hovington cowered on the porch alternately praying and swearing in a desperate attempt to cover all the bases.

Hunkered there in the darkness, he felt before himself a door, madness already raising the hand to knock.

Beyond the mothriddled light their faces were rapt and transfixed, he sang about death as if it was the only kept promise out of all life's false starts and switchbacks, all there was at the end of the dusty road, his voice told them about calm and quiet and eternal rest. No landlord, no cotton to chop, no ticket at the company store growing like a cancer. Just time itself frozen like leaves in winter ice and nothing in the round world to worry about or dread.

Stand high long enough and your lightning will come.

Hell of a world we live in, huh? (...) But it could be worse, huh?" "That's right," I said, "or even worse, it could be perfect.

By definition, any belief is something that sombody hopes is true; conversely, a disbelief is a hope that something is not true. Neither has anything whatever to do with the real truth, except to obscure it.

G?sesc c? numa' a?a po?i tr?i pe lume, f?când mereu câte ceva, de vrei s? nu-nnebune?ti or s? nu scobori mai jos decât câinele ultimului om.

We look forward to the time when the power to love will replace the love of power. Then will our world know the blessings of peace.

Cynics are simply thwarted romantics.

Men never cling to their dreams with such tenacity as at the moment when they are losing faith in them, and know it, but do not dare yet to confess it to themselves.

The Christian must trust in a withdrawing God.

Gospel peace comforts the soul, and that strongly, when it hath no other comfort to mingle with it.