Quotes About Hope

Con los mellizos pareció haber concluido la aterradora descendencia. Pero pasados tres años desearon de nuevo ardientemente otro hijo, confiando en que el largo tiempo transcurrido hubiera aplacado a la fatalidad.

Thus while I journey on, my Lord to meet,My thoughts and meditations are so sweet,Of Him on whom I lean, my strength, my stay,I can forget the sorrows of the way.

Beyond the smiling and the weeping, I shall be soon; Beyond the waking and the sleeping, Beyond the sowing and the reaping, I shall be soon! Love, rest, and home Sweet hope! Lord, tarry not, but come!

In the day of prosperity we have many refuges to resort to; in the day of adversity, only one.

The believed gospel saves; but it is the believed promise that assures us of this salvation.

It is not merely that we "glory in the cross" (Gal 6:14), but we draw strength from it.

I am convinced we shall succeed. I have faith in this country, because I have faith in its people.

God's glowing covenant.

Energy, like the biblical grain of the mustard-seed, will remove mountains.

Even if you're broken, if you have someone who believes in you then...you can continue moving forward.

Even if... you are hurt now and cry... you'll be stronger afterwards... and get up again for sure.

People who think that they have no chance and use that as an escape route... have no hope in life.

What do I have left after running away from believing? I've come to think that even if I believe in people and get hurt it is much better than regretting not doing so.

Usually, people... are unable to accept the reality of future sorrow, of a new day different from our past.

Because you "love" people so much no matter how bleak things are you will never give up on this world.

The dawn that Anna feared might never come would appear on schedule, just as it always had - and after it another, and another. And yesterday would become Last Month, then Last Winter, then Last Year, then Two and Five and Ten Years Ago, and one day the people would have to stop and think before they could say how long ago it was ...

Lonesomeness, on the other hand, did not depend on circumstance. It was bolted in the heart and seized on a man's weakness, a vise that squeezed all possibility out of time, that crushed hope and rendered meaningless anything tomorrow could offer.

Progress is possible only when people believe in the possibilities of growth and change. Races or tribes die out not just when they are conquered and suppressed but when they accept their defeated condition, become despairing, and lose their excitement about the future. Norman Cousins Americans

We can share hope with others. It's a powerful pillar in my life. In other words: Hope is not merely one person's dream in isolation. From the very beginning of human life on earth, hope has been a currency we can give and receive.

When you've been at the bottom, nothing looks that bad, and I had been at the bottom for quite a while. The bottom was normal for me. But the bottom got worse.

But a man is not born too soon, Paine had smiled. The world waits for men and dreamers, so how can a man be born too soon?

the two wounded

It's never over till it's over with a friend.

He no sooner saw the woman than he saw the aftermath of her - his marriage proposal and her acceptance, the home they would set up together, the drawn rich silk curtains leaking purple light, the bed sheets billowing like clouds, the wisp of aromatic smoke winding from the chimney - only for every wrack of it - its lattice of crimson roof tiles, its gables and dormer windows, his happiness, his future - to come crashing down on him in the moment of her walking past.