Quotes About Hope

When you're drowning in Hell, even a cement life jacket can look good.

I find a filter, shove it into the blessedly intact coffeemaker, and pour in half the damn bag of French roast. "I hope you like yours strong." "Like the Rock of Gibraltar," Samael says. And looks around. "A bit of a step up for you.

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

All losers are romantics. It's what keeps us from blowing our brains out.

The only Messiah still credible after the death camps would be one who wanted to come but could not because humans failed to invite the sacred stranger into existence.

If God doesn't use people who've failed, who's left for Him to use?'" ***

There are many of you in this congregation today who've been in a tomb of your own, a dark and forbidding place from which there seemed to be no exit. But God, in His mercy and power, brought you forth into the light. Yet you fear for the future, because you're not certain He can or will do it again.

Trapped inside the snotrag," Keith said, "is a crumb of angel food trying to get out." Lana

When I live with God in my heart, my future is to live in the Heart of God.

Well, you have to keep your faith in the fact that there are a lot of intelligent people who are actively looking for something interesting, people who have been disappointed so many times.

See. The whole concept of love is much more complex. Love's like God or something: It's everywhere...I see it, I feel it, but I don't know if another person is going to hand it to me.

Erinnerungen sind der Reiseproviant auf dem Weg in die Zukunft.

Why is it, I wonder, that people suffer, when there is so little need, when an effort of will and some hard work would bring them from their misery into peace and contentment.

And then something comes over you, and then suddenly it's as if you lift off the planet, and you're far above, looking down, and you've got to find this person, like the needle in the proverbial haystack. It's very strange. I could never express what that felt like. The feeling when you've lost something- that's bad enough. But when you've lost someone, it's awful.

Joni Mitchell had it right: "They paved paradise / and put up a parking lot." But perhaps, in the near future, we could add a line of hopeful epilogue to that song: then they tore down the parking lot / and raised up a paradise

Grandchildren have taught me how important the future is. I try to look through their eyes and envision what's in their imagination. What's the world going to look like when they're my age? That really does take a huge imagination.

A troubled life beats having no life at all

Few things in the world are more powerful than a positive push. A smile. A word of optimism and hope. A "you can do it" when things are tough.

I just leave myself entirely in my heavenly Father's hands and have no anxiety about the future. I know that if He sees fit to send me greater suffering, He will give greater grace to bear it.

In the long term we can hope that religion will change the nature of man and reduce conflict. But history is not encouraging in this respect. The bloodiest wars in history have been religious wars.

My sense of the holy is bound up with the hope that some day my remote descendants will live in a global civilization in which love is pretty much the only law.

She stood by his bedside and waited for him to die.

I will always try To hold my head up to the sky If only just to let you know That straight from my heart I still miss you so.

Let this hell be our heaven.