Quotes About Hope

In the wild struggle for existance, we want to have something that endures, and so we fill our minds with rubbish and facts, in the silly hope of keeping our place.

This suspense is terrible. I hope it will last.

Ambition is the last refuge of failure.

It is only by not paying one's bills that one can hope to live in the memory of the commercial classes.

Action is the last refuge of those who cannot dream.

Action: the last resource of those who know not how to dream.

Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world.

Yes: I am a dreamer. For a dreamer is one who can only find his way by moonlight, and his punishment is that he sees the dawn before the rest of the world.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.

You can enter yoga, or the path of yoga, only when you are totally frustrated with your own mind as it is. If you are still hoping that you can gain something through your mind, yoga is not for you.

Be realistic: Plan for a miracle.

Do not think that you first have to look at the total plan and progress of the world, if you are to know what actions will now make sense, and where they will lead!

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.

God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.

Leave the broken, irreversible past in God's hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.

God's end is to enable me to see that he can walk on the chaos of my life just now.

Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken "toys," but as our Father.

Let circumstances take you where they will, but keep drawing on the grace of God in whatever condition you may find yourself.

Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.

Build your hope on Him. No matter how many things seem to be pressing in on you, be determined to push them aside and look to Him. "Look to Me. . .

when we have the right relationship with God, life is full of spontaneous, joyful uncertainty and expectancy.