Quotes About Hope

We think we dare not be satisfied with the small measure of spiritual knowledge, experience and love that has been given to us, and that we must constantly be looking forward eagerly for the highest good.' 

St. Francis de Sales had spoken ably to that: "Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow; the same everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and every day. Either He will shield you from suffering, or He will give you unfailing strength to bear it.

He said what his dad said when he couldn't pray, when his thoughts were too jumbled, when he couldn't think straight: 'Jesus'.

Well, I'm going to church. But i've got to tell you that it's full of hypocrites. My friend, if you keep your eyes on Christians, you will be disappointed every day of your life. Your hope is to keep your eyes on Christ.

Easter is never deserved.

There may be circumstances in this life that God uses to keep bringing us back to Him, looking for His grace.

When the trees and the power lines crashed around you, when the very roof gave way above you, when the light turned to darkness and water turned to dust, did you call on Him? When you called on Him, was He somewhere up there, or was He as near as your very breath?

Give me faith, Lord, to know Your Presence as surely as I know the beating of my own heart. I've felt so far from You....

I can't say I have any confidence in confidence. I have confidence that God is with us in all things, both tender and tough.

O cattiva Proserpina, come puoi tollerare che invano sian versate tante lacrime amare?...

Until then we must carry on and have courage.

There's someone out there who needs you. You must live your life so that person can find you.

Life goes on, even when you think it can't. Even when you don't especially want it to.

Left wing...Right wing...it's so limited; why doesn't it ever occur to any of them that what one is really longing for is the wishbone?

The situation is desperate," runs an old Viennese saying, "but not serious.

She closed her eyes and shook her head. I was fairly certain she was praying—whether it was for strength or a vial of untraceable poison, I wasn't certain.

only one road out here." "Just stay cool," I said. "They're probably

I think the absence of hope removes all empathy. Then all you want is for the rest of the world to suffer like you do.

What after all has maintained the human race on this old Globe despite all the calamities of nature and all the tragic failings of mankind, if not faith in new possibilities and courage to advocate them.

We fatuously hoped that we might pluck from the human tragedy itself a consciousness of a common destiny which should bring its own healing, that we might extract from life's very misfortunes a power of cooperation which should be effective against them.

All those hints and glimpses of a larger and more satisfying democracy, which literature and our own hopes supply, have a tendency to slip away from us and to leave us sadly unguided and perplexed when we attempt to act upon them.

If one scheme of happiness fails, human nature turns to another; if the first calculation is wrong, we make a second better: we find comfort somewhere.

Next week I shall begin my operations on my hat, on which you know my principal hopes of happiness depend.

The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.