Quotes About Hope

The weaker the country, the stronger the smile.

Scepticism and pessimism aren't synonymous. Scepticism calls for pessimism when optimism is excessive. But it also calls for optimism when pessimism is excessive.

And Jesus lived happily ever after.

I do insist on making what I hope is sense so there's always a coherent narrative or argument that the reader can follow.

I can only repeat what I say to myself day and night: I expect nothing, yet life keeps taking unexpected turns.

When thinking harshly on the human condition, as I so often do, my antidote is to think gently on libraries, for if human beings are capable of preserving the history of our knowledge in the form of books, there there may still be hope.

If there is a next life yes, I have that hope, for it to be kinder. But probably whatever notion you come up with will be better than anything I could come up with. I'm in a constant state of uncertainty.

Is that your wife?" I asked. "Some day, if I play my cards right

When you give up,' said a slim older man whose home we rebuilt, 'you might as well lay down and die.' It was obvious that we weren't just giving people back their homes, but also restoring a sense of dignity.

Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope," Kennedy famously said in a speech delivered in South Africa in 1966 to condemn apartheid as well as the discrimination in his own country. "Crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance.

Just because others cannot see your vision doesn't mean that vision isn't achievable.

Believe in your dreams and dream big. And then after you've done that, dream bigger!

Your station in life does not define you. The promise of America is for all of us.

God with us.

God's perfect plan is unfolding in the lives of the people they have left behind.

This world is not heaven, but it doesn't have to be hell.

One of the most powerful things we can do is pray. Prayer can change the world.

In times of danger, pray to God to open heaven to you. Invite the angels to show themselves to you. Ask Jesus to save you. This world will fade away.

In the stillness of quiet, if we listen, we can hear the whisper of the heart giving strength to weakness, courage to fear, hope to despair.

The masses of men live with their backs constantly against the wall. They are the poor, the disinherited, the dispossessed. What does our religion say to them? The issue is not what it counsels them to do for others whose need may be greater, but what religion offers to meet their own needs. The search for an answer to this question is perhaps the most important religious quest of modern life.

At times when the strain is heaviest upon us, And our tired nerves cry out in many-tongued pain Because the flow of love is choked far below the deep recesses of the heart, We seek with cravings firm and hard The strength to break the dam That we may live again in love's warm stream. Until, at least, we are restored and made anew!

THE significance of the religion of Jesus to people who stand with their backs against the wall has always seemed to me to be crucial.

MANY and varied are the interpretations dealing with the teachings and the life of Jesus of Nazareth. But few of these interpretations deal with what the teachings and the life of Jesus have to say to those who stand, at a moment in human history, with their backs against the wall.

There is one overmastering problem that the socially and politically disinherited always face: Under what terms is survival possible?