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Quotes About Hope

Anything large enough for a wish to light upon, is large enough to hang a prayer upon.
~ George MacDonald
Prayer-though it is often draining, even an agony-is in the long term the greatest source of power that is possible.
~ Timothy Keller
The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered simply because they go unasked.
~ Mark Batterson
A pair of hands clasped in earnest prayer is the best means we have this side of heaven to hang onto Jesus for dear life.
~ Beth Moore
Be not afraid to pray--to pray is right. Pray, if thou canst, with hope; but ever pray, Though hope be weak or sick with long delay; Pray in the darkness, if there be no light.
~ Hartley Coleridge
The flower-girl's prayer to buy roses and pinks, held out in the smoke, like stars by day.
~ Elizabeth Barrett Browning
God's solution is a prayer away!
~ Max Lucado
The prayer of Ajax was for light.
~ Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
...the goodness of God is the highest object of prayer and it reaches down to our lowest need.
~ Julian of Norwich
Praying men must be strong in hope, and faith, and prayer.
~ Edward McKendree Bounds
One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse.
~ Phyllis Grissim-Theroux
I have relied on prayer for health care all of my life.
~ Henry Paulson
Lord, with so much violence in Iraq, may we persevere in our prayer and generosity.
~ Pope Francis
The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.
~ Will Rogers
God's pleasure is at the end of our prayers.
~ Francis Quarles
Allow your dreams a place in your prayers and plans. God-given dreams can help you move into the future He is preparing for you.
~ Barbara Johnson
In my prayers I never said I needed a home. I said I wanted a sanctuary.
~ Mary Anne Radmacher
I will not let thee go, except thou bless me.
~ Isak Dinesen
A picture is like a prayer.
~ Harry Callahan
To pray is to desire; but it is to desire what God would have us desire.
~ Francois Fenelon
Perhaps all the good that ever has come here has come because people prayed it into the world.
~ Wendell Berry, Jayber Crow
I'm convinced that one of the most powerful forces on earth is the prayer of a child.
~ Wess Stafford
The World will go limping until Christ's prayer that all may be one is answered.
~ Charles Brent
Say a prayer for the pretender, who started out so young and strong only to surrender.
~ Jackson Browne