Quotes About Hope

Fear of the future is worse than one's present fortune.

Vain hopes are like certain dreams of those who wake.

Too much to lament a misery is the next way to draw on a remediless mischief.

This is the best day the world has ever seen; tomorrow will be better.

They experience new-born hope that humans have indeed a destiny of individual significance complementary to the integrity of other individuals.

Madness need not be all breakdown. It may also be breakthrough. It is potentially liberation and renewal as well as enslavement and existential death.

Love builds bridges where there are none.

The attraction of New Year is this: the year changes and in that change we believe that we can change with it. It is far more difficult however to change yourself than turn the calendar to a new page. We are creatures of faith, like it or not.

Rightly understood the New Year festival is an act of faith. It is easier for the year to change than to change ourselves. But we believe that somehow, magically, one will lead to the other.

Even if atheists were right--that prayer is wishful thinking--they are right only in relation to God, not in relation to wishing. The importance of prayer is that it is an expression of our spiritual nature, and when we wish for love, peace,for our own good and the good of others we define ourselves as more than flesh and blood. We define ourselves as hoping, loving, and imagining beings who crave to know the source of our being.

When asked if he really believed that two men for whose salvation he had prayed for over fifty years would be converted, George Muller of Bristol replied, "Do you think God would have kept me praying all these years if He did not intend to save them?" Both men were converted, one shortly before, the other after Muller's death.

Love is lust made meaningful. Hope is hunger made human.

Achamian tossed his hands skyward in dismay. "Foolish boy! How many faiths are there? How many competing beliefs? And you would murder another on the slender hope that yours is somehow the only one?

I know Antoinette, it was a long time ago but it was still my fault and I hope that the work we are doing now will weigh in favor of my soul one day, against the horrible mistake I made all those years ago". "I am sure it will, Alexander, but for now if we can operate inconspicuously and just change one vampire at a time back to their human self and give them their life back it will have to be servitude enough". "It

When the brook dries up, we know it is time to move. God has something better in mind. Count on it. He will never leave you nor forsake you (seen Hebrews 13:5). No good thing will He withhold from you when it is God's will

When the brook dries up because there is no rain, but you say, "Praise the Lord," you bring great honor to God. Trust Him to show you the next step forward. He will. He is never too early, never too late, but always just on time. When God closes a door, He opens a window. Learn to accept the closed door and be prepared for the surprising window that will open. It opened for Elijah and it will open for you.

home and make a meal for myself and my son, that we may eat it—and die." 1 Kings 17:8–12

Jesus could wash away your sins—but it is the only hope you have. Accept this offer now. Confess your sins to God. Thank Him for sending His Son. Transfer the trust you have in your good works to what Jesus did for you on the cross. Doing this will result in a pardon of all your sins. When the widow did what Elijah said to do, all he promised came to pass. It will with you, too, when you affirm this Gospel.

The hiding of God's face is the essence of His discipline. Moreover, God never gives advanced warning when He will be hiding His face. If only He would say, "Next Tuesday about 3:20 P.M., you will notice that the light of My countenance will be withdrawn for a while." If only. Then we could be ready and not be shaken. But part of our preparation is learning how to respond in impossible situations when God seems very far away. And yet the widow was understandably in

destiny, n. I know this word so close to my heart that it hurts.

Uncertainty is the very essence of romance.

But how did you convince people to come out of hiding when hiding was all they had known?

while I am Death's daughter and walk in His dark shadow, surely the darkness can give way to light sometimes.

true faith never comes without anguish.