Quotes About Hope

the future is always more important than the past.

What if you do what you think is right, for yourself or someone else, but it doesn't make a difference." - Susanna Quiner

Christianity, Judith answered, is a lie of consolation. There's no consolation for what we've already lost — all of us …

God calls us to a wild adventure, not a tea party, my dear. I don't follow Jesus because he can give me a life without pain. I follow him because he is good. Someday I will follow him right through death, and into our Heavenly Father's house." Aunt Wealthy

God does not always take us where we want to go, but He always leads us where we need to be.

God doesn't want you to wait, he wants you to live.

For 'we must through much tribulation enter into the kingdom of God.' And 'many are the afflictions of the righteous.'" "But the Lord delivereth him out of them all

Even if you feel like you have lost Him, Gavi, He hasn't lost you.

After the desperate years of their own war, after six years of repression inside Spain and six years of horror in exile, these people remain intact in spirit. They are armed with a transcendent faith they have never won, and yet they have never accepted defeat.

I wait every year for summer, and it is usually good, but it is never as good as that summer I am always waiting for.

It is high time that I learn to be more careful about hope, a reckless emotion for travelers. The sensible approach would be to the expect the worst, the very worst, that way you avoid grievous disappointment and who knows with a tiny bit of luck, you might even have a moderately pleasant surprise, like the difference between hell and purgatory.

I do not hope for a world at peace, all of it, all the time. I do not believe in the perfectibility of man, which is what would be required for world peace; I only believe in the human race. I believe the human race must continue.

It is high time that I learn to be more careful about hope, a reckless emotion for travellers. The sensible approach would be to expect the worst, the very worst; that way you avoid grievous disappointment and who knows, with a tiny bit of luck, you might even have a moderately pleasant surprise, like the difference between hell and purgatory.

Surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life: and I will dwell in the house of the Lord for ever. Psalm 23 KJV

Still, we're less betrayed by others, it seems, than by our own hopes and dreams.

I don't worry about being in a hurry any more, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.

I still marvel at how God turns dreams into reality.

The person who suffers from a severe trauma disorder must decide between surviving in a barely sublethal misery of numbness and frustration, and taking a chance that may well bring her a better life, but that feels like stupidly issuing an open invitation to the unspeakable horror that waits to consume her alive. And in the manner of the true hero, she must choose to take the risk. For

That could be a good sign, right?" "Sure," I said. It was a terrible sign.

Tlacey bought us passage on a public shuttle," Rami told me. "That could be a good sign, right?" "Sure," I said. It was a terrible sign.

I'll give you one more answer. The words Bashasa spoke to me before he died were 'Don't let everything we fought for be for nothing.

I have a plan." This was true. "I just don't know whether it will actually work or not." This, unfortunately, was also true.

Mensah sent me a private message through the feed: I hope you're all right. Because you need me. I don't know where that came from. All right, it came from me, but she was my client, I was a SecUnit. There was no emotional contract between us. There was no rational reason for me to sound like a whiny human baby.

Kai groaned under his breath. He had been hoping for one dramatic masterstroke that would take down the whole bridge and maybe make him feel better about his continued existence.