Quotes About Hope

Dr. Arada, who is what her marital partner Overse calls a "terminal optimist

Her face looked younger. She looked like she had been pretending to have hope and now she didn't have to pretend anymore. (Confession time: that moment, when the humans or augmented humans realize you're really here to help them. I don't hate that moment.)

But I want a lot of things—freedom, unlimited downloads, new episodes of Drama Sun Islands—most of which I wasn't going to get.

Like all good advice, Moon didn't think he was going to have much chance to follow it.

What is promised is that those with the courage to mourn will find, in the wake of mourning, a strange blessing: that after the sadness is expressed, the pain released into the accepting air, it is as though some love at the heart of life wraps its arms around the mourner and says, There, there, I am with you, I hear you, I understand. Everything's going to be all right.

In the extremity of darkness I will look up and see the stars.

Has God ever forsaken you? He told you He wouldn't, and He never has. Never.

Don't give up now. If God has brought you this far, He won't leave you. Will you try? Will you give Him a chance to take the fear away?

Faith that no matter what happens, you won't lose God's love.

God loves you. And if God is on your side, what is there to fear? Nothing. Now or ever.

There are great mysteries in this world that only God understands. But this I do understand. No mistake you may have ever made is bigger than God's power to fix it.

Look, He's not promising that it's going to be easy, but He says it's going to be worth it.

People like to think that bad things only happen to faceless strangers in newspapers, until it happens to them. That's why our faith must be strong now, before we need it.

Every prayer gets answered. Sometimes the answer is "no," but sometimes the answer is "not yet.

Every day is a chance to start over, my friend.

You've let the past come between you and God. Turn the past over to Him. He is strong enough to take it. Give Him your future, too. And He'll make you strong enough to face it.

You don't need proof. You need faith.

Things happen in God's time, not yours.

Never lose hope. There is always a battle going on that you don't see.

Without faith, a man's hope is in nothing but himself. And sooner or later, he will let himself down. But God will never let us down.

Lots of people believe in God. But trusting Him . . . that is the next step.

one bicycle, but even if we'd had another, I think

Every mother hopes that her daughter will marry a better man than she did, and is convinced that her son will never find a wife as good as his father did.

Anything is possible where faith is concerned.