Quotes About Hope

You have it. she said. And for what little it is worth, I hope that it brings you peace.

Why couldn't Ireland have been like this when I was a boy?

I've known violence, I've known bigotry. I've known shame and I've known love. And somehow, I always survive.

I won't be coming back, she replied, taking the ticket from his hands and placing it carefully in her purse, for she had a sense that this might be an item that would be worth holding on to, a paper memory with the date of the beginning of her new life stamped across it in heavy black ink.

Children are natural believers—they know there is something greater than themselves.

The unlimited power that many modern gurus offer is false hope. Their programs calling us to unlimited power have made them rich, not us. They touch our false selves and tap our toxic shame. We humans are finite, "perfectly imperfect." Limitation is our essential nature. Grave problems result from refusing to accept our limits.

The spiritual wound can be healed. But it must be done by grieving, and that is painful.

The Word of God not only offers hope and forgiveness, but power to live a new life of integrity and faith.

I know what I really want for Christmas. I want my childhood back. Nobody is going to give me that.… I know it doesn't make sense, but since when is Christmas about sense, anyway? It is about a child of long ago and far away, and it is about the child of now. In you and me. Waiting behind the door of our hearts for something wonderful to happen.

The French novelist Léon Bloy once said, "There are places in the heart that do not yet exist; pain must be in order for them to be.

I always wondered what democracy might smell like.

Some also have wished that the next way to their Father's house were here, that they might be troubled no more with either hills or mountains to go over, but the Way is the Way, and there is an end.

But I thought you were dead,' I put in. 'Mors janua vitae,' he smiled.

My first rule, everyday, was to find enough food to make it to the next day. Then I could afford the luxury of worrying about the enemy.

To go back is nothing but death; to go forward is fear of death, and life everlasting beyond it. I will yet go forward.

In times of affliction we commonly meet with the sweetest experiences of the love of God.

I live because I am a Warrior and because I wish one day to be in the company of [She] for whom I have fought so hard

There is in Jesus Christ more merit and righteousness than the whole world has need of.

I found it hard work now to pray to God, because despair was swallowing me up

Whoso beset him round With dismal stories Do but themselves confound; His strength the more is.

Farewell, I wish our souls may meet with comfort at the journey's end.- The Heavenly Footman: A Puritan's View of How to Get to Heaven.

He ran till he came to a small hill, at the top of which stood a cross and at the bottom of which was a tomb. I saw in my dream that when Christian walked up the hill to the cross, his burden came loose from his shoulders and fell off his back, tumbling down the hill until it came to the mouth of the tomb, where it fell in to be seen no more.

The man that seeks the everlasting prize; It shows you whence he comes, wither he goes. What he leaves undone; also what he does. It also shows you how he runs and runs. Till he unto the gate of glory comes.

O my Mansoul, I have lived, I have died, I live, and I will die no more for thee. I live that thou mayest not die. Because I live thou shalt live also; I reconciled thee to my Father by the blood of My cross, and being reconciled thou shalt live through me. I will pray for thee, I will fight for thee, I will yet do thee good. Nothing can hurt thee but sin; nothing can grieve Me but sin; nothing can make thee base before thy foes but sin; take heed of sin, my Mansoul.