Quotes About Hope

The past always seems better when you look back on it than it did at the time. And the present never looks as good as it will in the future. It's depressing if you spend too much time reliving the old joys. You think you'll never have anything as good again.

God isn't going to scribble across the sky, The shark is gone.

The peace to come gives the present no peace.

And at the end of every single day, I stood on the edge of a cliff and stared at the drop and kept trying to find the inner strength to jump off it. Every. Damned. Day. I wrestled with the question of whether to keep on living my lousy existence or simply putting an end to it. For three months. And every day I discovered that ending my life was not an acceptable solution.

the point is that every fight is worth fighting. Even the hopeless ones.

Yet he derives emotional strength merely from the knowledge of her existence.

It's time we capture our imaginations for Christ

If you expect the worst, you can only be suprised

Mirar el cielo, ahí pasan las nubes, y pensar: "No, nunca voy a suicidarme"

Bettering your life, getting a fresh start, the bright side. Spout these concepts daily and you will survive in Endora; you might even thrive.

There is hope in such a superstition; there is the illusion of control.

A dusty calendar was marked with the slogan TOMORROW WILL BE EVEN BETTER. It seemed ominous that the calendar was three years old.

This is what men will never understand, she realizes...Their dishonor, men's dishonor, can always be redeemed, defeat followed by victory, capture by escape, escape by capture. Up hill and down dale. But women are dishonored once and for all. Their only hope is to hide it. To keep it to themselves.

We try too much and trust too little. Count the times God's Book tells us to try. Now count the times it tells us to trust.

Despair itself can be hopeful if it is honest.

But that is all prayer requires: faith, hope, and love. Great holiness, or piety, or sanctity are not required. Prayer is a road to holiness.

When you're in a burning building looking out of the twentieth story window down to the street and all you see is clouds of billowing smoke, you have to choose to believe the firemen below who tell you they have a safety net and it's safe to jump. When the clouds of smoke disappear, you don't have to believe any more: you see it. In this world, it's a leap in the dark; in the next world, it's a leap in the light.

No one can be saved, and attain eternal joy, without all of the following: (1) a morally honest acceptance of the demands of virtue, (2) a serious effort to practice it, (3) an intellectually honest confession of failure, (4) repentance, and (5) at least an implicit faith and hope in God as Savior.

The deepest healing is the healing of the deepest wound. The deepest wound is the frustration of the deepest need. The deepest need is the need for meaning, purpose, and hope.

He came. That is the salient fact, the towering truth, that alone keeps us from putting a bullet through our heads. He came.

In a sense "all the way to Heaven is Heaven" (St. Catherine).

nothing else can ever cure our sick world except saints, and saints are never made except by prayer.

Romans 8:28 (ESV): For those who love God all things work together for good.

When the worldly toys in which we foolishly place our hopes for happiness are taken away from us, our foolishness is also taken away, and this brings us closer to true happiness, which is not in worldly things but in wisdom.