Quotes About Hope

OUR CHOICE IS either to trust our plans with all our heart or trust our God.

God-with-us" is the essence of deliverance regardless of the specific circumstance. As

For our sins, He suffered beneath the burden of that unanswered prayer."1 Here

In fact, the common experience of those who walk with God is one of being given images of what can be.

It is important when we have a need to go to God in prayer. I know, whenever I have prayed earnestly, that I have been heard and have obtained more than I prayed for. God sometimes delays, but He always comes." —Martin Luther, "What a Great Gift We Have in Prayer"9

the land of fadeless day lies the city foursquare; it shall never pass away and there is no night there.

There are desires we haven't named yet, loves so impossible they have to be true. — Richard Jackson, from "Incompleteness," The Heart as Framed: New and Selected Poems (Press 53, 2022)

This is why I have written you in here, hoping to find a way to change the meanings of these words, to say war but mean peace, death but mean life, hate but mean your love, nothing but everything you could possibly mean to be. from "Misunderstood

And this morning, / above us, invisible stars the daylight hides begin to map for us, / secretly, new paths our hearts had seemed to despair of,–those /vapor trails that linger longer than they are supposed to, the wake / of the boat that echoes perhaps endlessly, shore to shore,– if only / we can believe in them without ever seeing where they are. — Richard Jackson, from "Invisible Star Maps," Broken Horizons (Press 53, 2018)

It is in this marvellous transformation of clods and cold matter into living things that the joy and the hope of summer reside. Every blade of grass, each leaf, each separate floret and petal, is an inscription speaking of hope. So that my hope becomes as broad as the horizon afar, reiterated by every leaf, sung on every bough, reflected in the gleam of every flower.

My heart is fixed firm and stable in the belief that ultimately the sunshine and the summer, the flowers and the azure sky, shall become, as it were, interwoven into man's existence. He shall take from all their beauty and enjoy their glory.

Let not the eyes grow dim, look not back but forward; the soul must uphold itself like the sun. Let us labour to make the heart grow larger as we become older, as the spreading oak gives more shelter. That we could but take to the soul some of the greatness and the beauty of the summer!

Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair

We all get our dreams stamped on from time to time, right? And if it didn't hurt, what kind of second-rate dreams would they be?

It's so quiet and peaceful out here I'm getting bored with breathing. Maybe we'll get lucky and the world will go to Hell again. Fingers crossed.

I've come a long way to get nowhere at all, I thought. And I've spent everything I have to get here.

To the dead. Let's think of them always, but not join them too soon.

The lucky among us might get the same deal as Dysmas. Dysmas was one of the thieves crucified next to Christ. When he asked for forgiveness, Christ said, 'Today you will be with me in paradise.' " Candy

You still think I have a good side?" "There's a search party out for it but I'm optimistic they'll turn up something.

Thanks, but sometimes I think my sins are the only thing holding me together

Try to stay calm," I say as I shove She-Ra into my pocket. "Things are going to be okay." But I'm not 100 percent sure who I'm trying to convince, and even as I step into a shadow for Max Overdrive I have a bad feeling I'm wrong.

How is he?" she says, looking at Kasabian. "He'll be fine. Sore as hell for a while, but fine." "We should all be so lucky." "True. Janet tells me that you're still waiting for a final Immigration interview." She nods infinitesimally.

When you're born in a burning house, you think the whole world is on fire. But it's not.

Maybe I'll live long enough to find out. The way the day is going, though, I'll be lucky to make it through the appetizer course.