Quotes About Hope

Does one ever play Coltrane for the uninitiated without subconsciously hoping for the worst?

Elveszni talán nem is olyan rossz.

They've still got their problems, just like all of us. They're still sick men in lots of ways. But at least there's that: they are sick men now. No more rabbits, Mack. Maybe they can be well men someday. I can't say.

Whoever comes in the door is usually disappointing, but there is always a chance otherwise. And when a key hits the lock, all the heads come up like there's strings on them.

Sometimes—after futile all-nights—deserts fill my work-house and smoking sand gets in my eyes . . . and I must split the swollen cabin to check the dawn, to find: the creek still parties with the moon . . . the thrusting pine and whippoorwills still celebrate the sun. It generally works, and things are cool, but sometimes—after cutting out—nothing out there happens but the night. And those days were best forgotten.

She was saying something but I didn't hear, I ran, leaving her behind, toward my brother . . . leaving her and blindly hoping she might see that I was making it possible to perhaps someday have her. Her or someone.

How," the moon whispered, "can you be sure it is lost? Until you try to find it?

Is it that?" she asked in a soft voice, once more examining her hands, "not being sure of that 'someday'? Or is it not being sure of having that 'somebody'?

And I lay awake for hours, hoping another phone call would give me that opportunity to be alone and unruffled with her.

The best thing about the future is that it happens one day at a time.

It would be unfair to say that I prefer the back of a book to its contents, but it is true that the sight of a lot of books gives me the hope that I may some day read them, which sometimes develops into the belief that I have read them.

Our only hope lies in the power of our love, generosity, tolerance and understanding and our commitment to making the world a better place for all.

You can't change in your own power. If you feel overwhelmed by something bigger than you, let the one who is bigger than all things be the power you need in your weakness.

We have been given God in our souls and Christ in our flesh. We have the power to believe where others deny, to hope where others despair, to love where others hurt.

Love is the divine quality that everywhere produces and restores life. To each and every one of us, it gives the power of working miracles if we will.

The power of faith is suspending judgment long enough to gain the rewards available.

There is never a sickness Jesus cannot heal and never a disease Jesus cannot cure. To God's power, nothing is impossible!

The power of light is always bigger than the power of darkness.

Dreams have the power to make real what the heart desires.

When mountains fall, I'll stand, By the power of Your hand.

The fact is there is forgiveness for those who seek God. And I believe in the power of redemption.

The presence of Christ brings us his power and ability to use our limited resources in limitless ways.

Events of resistance have the power not only to escape control but also to create a new world.

Never underestimate the power that comes when a parent pleads with God on behalf of a child.