Quotes About Hope

When you have a good mother and no father, God kind of sits in. It's not good enough, but it helps. But I got tired of hearing Momma say, God, fix it so I can pay the rent; God, fix it so the lights will be turned on; God, fix it so the pot is full. I kind of felt it really wasn't His job.

Can you imagine what this old Negro had to go through? Can you imagine the day a Negro woman went to a black man and said: "Honey, I'm pregnant," and both of them fell on their knees and prayed that their baby would be born deformed? Can you imagine what this Negro went through, hoping his baby is born crippled? Because if he was born crippled, he would have less chance of being a slave and more chance of having freedom.

Human salvation lies in the hands of the creatively maladjusted.

There is the story of the English vicar who was asked whether he expected to go to heaven, and what he thought he would find there. Well, I suppose I believe in eternal bliss, if it comes to that, he replied, but I wish you wouldn't bring up such depressing subjects.

a boat, even a wrecked and wretched boat still has all the possibilities of moving

I am not nostalgic for a country which doesn't yet exist on a map." [...] I am not nostalgic. Belonging does not interest me. I had once thought that it did. Until I examined the underpinnings. One is mislead when on looks at the sails and majesty of tall ships instead of their cargo.

Angie was a border crosser, a wetback, a worker in the immigrant sweatshop they call this city. On days like this I understand her like a woman instead of a child. Everybody thought she was a whore. She wasn't. She tried to step across the border of who she was and who she might be. They wouldn't let her. She didn't believe it herself so she stepped across into a whole other country.

Prayer's a very tricky business.

There used to be two of us always on the look-out for life, talking to Miss Blossom at night, wondering, hoping; two Bronte-Jane Austen girls, poor but spirited, two Girls of Godsend Castle.

She will want things to stay just as they are. She will never have the fun of hoping something wonderful and exiting may be just around the corner.

But the happiness you hoped to win for me will never be mine.

Things you let yourself imagine happening, never do happen.

I stood there ringing the bell and banging on the door, feeling I could make someone be there, knowing all the time that I couldn't.

deep down, in some vague, mixed way I had been letting myself hope that he didn't really care for her, that it was me he loved and that kissing me would have made him realise it...

Well, for inexperienced pray-ers it sometimes is. You see, they're apt to think of God as a slot-machine. If nothing comes out they say 'I knew dashed well it was empty' — when the whole secret of prayer is knowing the machine's full." "But how can one know?" "By filling it oneself." "With faith?" "With faith.

I think it worthy of note that I never felt happier in my life - despite sorrow for Father, pity for Rose, embarrassment about Stephen's poetry and no justification for hope as regards our family's general outlook. Perhaps it is because I have satisfied my creative urge; or it may be due to the thought of eggs for tea.

I suppose the best kind of spring morning is the best weather God has to offer. It certainly helps one to believe in Him.

I have noticed that when things happen in one's imaginings, they never happen in one's life, so I am curbing myself.

La société démocratique, où toutes les fonctions sont formellement ouvertes à tous, suscite les espoirs et les ambitions. Elle multiplie en conséquence, à tous les niveaux le nombre des déçus et des humiliés.

Don't cry for me, just love yourself more today than you did yesterday. It's true when they say tomorrow isn't promised and live everyday like it's your last.

That which we fear to touch is often the very fabric of our salvation.

Out of some persistent sense of large-scale ruin, we kept inventing hope.

Look past the violence. There is a wonderful brimming spirit of innocence and fun.

Sounds like a boring life. I hope it lasts forever, she said.