Quotes About Hope

God knows I tried my best to learn the ways of this world, even had inklings we could be glorious; but after all that's happened, the inkles ain't easy anymore. I mean - what kind of fucken life is this?

Don't be lookin up at no sky for help. Look down here, at us twisted dreamers.

Jesus smiled, "So, you believe because you've seen with your own eyes. Good! But better blessings are in store for those who believe without seeing.

You can't get anything worth having for nothing," Darnay declared, offering his guest a fill of tobacco from his pouch, "and faith is worth having—it's the only thing that can save us now, when the whole world has straws in its hair. Faith is worth working for." Bulloch considered this while he filled his pipe. "To

If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there Thy hand shall guide me and Thy right hand shall hold me.

Brownlow had dreaded coming back to Kintoul, but he found that there was nothing to fear. He was scarcely even sad; there was no awakening of that misery which had driven him hither and thither like a leaf in the autumn wind for so many weary years.

Do thy diligence to come before winter," repeated Father. " Paul was old and weary and he felt the approach of winter as old people still do. He felt the approach of death. He did not dread his passing for he knew that he would obtain the salvation which is in Christ Jesus with eternal glory, but he longed to see the beloved face of Timothy before he died.

Prayers are not always answered, " Malcolm replied. "Sometimes it's better for us that they're not answered; sometimes they're answered differently from what we expect.

People can't go on living without happiness—or at least without hope.

Grace says she likes thinking about the future and making plans—even if the plans don't come off—and perhaps if Jack's old aunt dies in time they will be able to manage it all right. The old aunt is "over ninety and quite queer", so Grace does not feel that it is wrong to envisage her end.

so easily beset us, and let us run with patience the race that is set before us." Esther knew only too well that the weight she carried was too much anxiety and her besetting sin was too little faith, so the verse was peculiarly applicable to her.

We've got to live, no matter how many skies have fallen.

It's no good trying to get rid of your own aloneness. You've got to stick to it all your life. Only at times, at times, the gap will be filled in. At times! But you have to wait for the times. Accept your own aloneness and stick to it, all your life. And then accept the times when the gap is filled in, when they come. But they've got to come. You can't force them.

She was always waiting, it seemed to be her forte.

In my few short years I learned that seeing what's positive about a situation is a lot more fun and gets you a lot further than looking for what might be wrong with it.

Hope is a fragile emotion, my friend. It isn't real. It exists only in the imagination. If you believe there is hope, there is hope. If you don't believe there is hope, there isn't.

Then what have you proved?" I asked. "Only that people will always try to make a better life for themselves.

Saint Dane was right. Hope is a fragile thing. It's easy to lose, but it's possible to get it back. And I got it back.

Providence ever turns bad to the good, if you have eyes to see it.

I am my own version of the DREAM Act.

The beautiful despair is never fruitless. It keeps you going. Like when I first heard Bob Dylan do 'Things Have Changed,' or any time I see any work of art really beautifully done, like Michelangelo's 'The David' or that movie 'Lost in Translation' - it inspires me to try and find my own version of that.

The point about hope is that it is something that occurs in very dark moments. It is like a flame in the darkness; it isn't like a confidence and a promise.

I am very much looking forward to new adventures - including, I hope, Broadway - sooner rather than later.

Take your mind off the problems for a moment, and focus on the positive possibilities. Consider how very much you are able to do.