Quotes About Hope

Don't worry, my friend. I won't let you die." I was seventeen and stupid and I believed him.

I didn't know if we were heading for the gallows or an interrogation chamber. The night had passed without sleep; save for a swig from the German's flask, there hadn't been a sip to drink since the rooftop of the Kirov; a lump the size of an infant's fist had swelled where my forehead had cracked the ceiling- it was a bad morning, really; among my worst- but I wanted to live.

Hope had finally learned to live in the present. Often, when she found herself in a space of tremendous comfort, usually out in nature, or when her children were safe all around her and on the verge of going to bed, she forced herself to take stock. Here you are, Hope, she told herself. What a beautiful moment. You may never again be here at this spot, enjoying the calm. This habit of hers, to acknowledge the immediate and elusive joy of the present, kept her sane.

But an innocent conviction of grace, once lost, cannot easily be regained.

I just believe that the feeling of wonder is amazing. I am pushing myself as far as I can humanly push myself... I can only hope for the best and expect the worse.

To become a successful changemaker, you don't have to study social entrepreneurship. You do need to understand the workings of the systems you hope to change and the history of the problem with which you are concerned.

Don't let me hear you say life takes you nowhere, angel. - Golden Years

We can be heroes just for one day

If you hope for happiness in the world, hope for it from God, and not from the world.

We are a long time in learning that all our strength and salvation is in God.

There is a God in heaven who overrules all things for the best; and this is the comfort of my soul. . .How blessed it is to grow more and more like God!

Nothing seemed to hard for God to perform; nothing to great for me to hope for from Him.

To an eye of reason, everything that respects the conversion of the heathen is as dark as midnight; and yet I cannot but hope in God for the accomplishment of something glorious among them.

All my desire was the conversion of the heathen and all my hope was in God. God does not suffer me to please or comfort myself with hopes of seeing friends, returning to my dear acquaintance, and enjoying worldly comforts.

The truth is that God is to be found in all things--even and most especially in the painful, tragic and unpleasant things.

The imagination offers up ideal visions of experiences which then leave us disappointed when the visions don't come true.

The imagination simplifies our endless desires and causes us to fantasize that they can be fulfilled.

Consider the possibility that a creature of infinite love has made a promise to us. Consider the possibility that we are the ones committed to, the objects of an infinite commitment, and that the commitment is to redeem us and bring us home.

Life can begin at eighty, but you don't need to wait that long.

People tend to overstate my resilience, but, of course, I hope they're right.

I wanted to find a reason not to be cynical—to have some faith even when nothing around me seemed to justify it.

Music can get us through difficult patches in our lives by changing not only how we feel about ourselves, but also how we feel about everything outside ourselves. It's powerful stuff.

Any kid will tell you that, yes, their music is both an escape and a survival mechanism, and that sometimes the music givesbthem hope and inspiration. It doesn't just placate and pacify.

I don't care how impossible it seems.