Quotes About Hope

I tried to cry, there were no tears I tried to laugh, there was no scorn I tried to run, there was no road I tried to die, I was not born

I will starve till prophets find me, I will bleed till angels bind me, Still I sing till churches blind me, Still I love till cog-wheels wind me.

I pray for courage I pray for courage Now I'm old To greet the sickness And the cold I pray for courage In the night To bear the burden Make it light I pray for courage In the time When suffering comes and Starts to climb I pray for courage At the end To see death coming As a friend

Forget the perfect offering. Everything is flawed. It's the cracks that let the Light in...

every heart, every heart to love will come but like a refugee.

We did no train ourselves to receive, because we believed there wasn't anything to receive and we could not endure with this belief.

There is a crack, a crack, in everything. That's how the light gets in.

If you are the dealer Let me out of the game If you are the healer I'm broken and lame If thine is the glory Mine must be the shame You want it darker We kill the flame

Blessed are you who, among the numberless swept away in terror, permitted a few to suffer carefully.

steer your way through the pain that is far more real than you

Though I don't believe, I come to you now, and I lift my doubt to your mercy.

But I know she's coming and I know she will look That's the longing and this is the book

I sailed like a swan I sank like a rock But time is long gone Past my laughing stock

Baby, I've been waiting, I've been waiting night and day I didn't see the time, I waited half my life away

When you've fallen on the highway And you're lying in the rain, And they ask you how you're doing Of course you'll say you can't complain If you're squeezed for information, That's when you've got to play it dumb You just say you're out there waiting For the miracle, for the miracle to come

One million candles burning for the help that never came

Forget your perfect offering. There is a crack, a crack in everything. That's how the light gets in.

Across that midnight landscape he rides with his toppling burden of despair and hope, bearing with him the beast's face and the dream, but unable to cast off either or to believe in either. For he is man, the changeling, in whom the sense of goodness has not perished, nor an eye for some supernatural guidepost in the night.

When misery is the greatest, God is the closest,

Courage is continuing to perform your daily tasks, and being hopeful despite the odds, not inflicting your fears on others, and remaining sensitive to their needs and expectations, and also not supposing, because you're dying, nothing matters any more.

Because I have known despair I value hope Because I have tasted frustration I value fulfillment Because I have been lonely I value love

The worse the coming future, the more it should motivate its opponents.

the heart of the world Here I am, locked in my own shadow for more that twenty years, and yet I have reached my hand through stone and steel and razor wire and touched the heart of the world Mitakuye Oyasin, my Lakota brethren say. We are all related. We are One.

One thing and one thing alone keeps us from complete decay in this hour - the church, the true Church.