Quotes About Hope

God is above the world, and is also above sin and all evil. He allowed it because he could expiate it. So he maintained through all centuries and among all men the longing and the capacity for redemption, and wrought that redemption himself in the fulness of time, in the midst of history, in the crucified Christ.

everything we value in this life is inseparably connected with the future.

All worldviews, therefore, end in an eschatology and all efforts at reformation are animated by faith in the future.

Theology leads through soteriology to eschatology.

311eschatology lives in the heart of all.

The superhuman task of transforming present society into a state of peace and joy requires more than ordinary human power; if God himself does not work the change, hope can be cherished only when human power is divinized.

If there ever is to be a blessed humanity it must be preceded by a radical change in human nature.

In de tijd dat ik veronderstelde een revolutionair te zijn liet ik mijn baard groeien. De revolutie kwam echter niet. Ik had te weinig idealen.

Niet dat ik per se wil sterven, maar het zou helpen om het leven draaglijker te maken.

It's time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain't working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.

Your time will come. But if it doesn't come, don't let that make no difference either.

geef me nu eindelijk wat ik altijd al had

Nog een geluk dat Zoals met de gek uit het grapje die zich voortdurend met een hamer op het hoofd sloeg, en naar de reden gevraagd, zei: "Omdat het zo prettig is, als ik ermee ophou"- zo is het een beetje met mij. Ik ben ermee opgehouden je te verliezen. Ik ben je kwijt. Misschien is dat geluk: een geluk bij een ongeluk. Misschien is geluk: Nog een geluk dat. Dat ik aan jou kan terugdenken, bv., in plaats van aan een ander.

If Luther's day expand to Darwin's year,Shall that exclude the hope—foreclose the fear?

Hope is the struggle of the soul, breaking loose from what is perishable, and attesting her eternity.

But me they'll lash in hammock, drop me deep.Fathoms down, fathoms down, how I'll dream fast asleep.I feel it stealing now. Sentry, are you there?Just ease these darbies [manacles] at the wrist,And roll me over fair!I am sleepy, and the oozy weeds about me twist.

The poor old Past,The Future's slave.

Were this world an endless pain, and by sailing eastward we could forever reach new distances, and discover sights more sweet and strange than any Cyclades or Islands of King Solomon, then there were promise in the voyage.

What's important is promising something to the people, not actually keeping those promises. The people have always lived on hope alone.

Oh, wise physician of a wasted land!

where there is a people which no longer has a future, there the church still has a future, because the future of the church is the future of Jesus Christ.

There is a better world," a man said. "But it's more expensive.

To combat death you don't need much of a life, just one that isn't yet finished.

Heute geht es mir besser, ich bin fast ein Mensch.