Quotes About Hope

Long ago, I gave you my soul. Take care of it for me, until I find you again.

And remember this. No victory is certain. No situation is hopeless. When you find yourselves in a hopeless situation, change the rules.

Things look much brighter in the morning.

Richard Porter

I think about being married again, having a home and a wife. No one can ever be married too many times, and maybe if I keep trying I'll get it right one day.

Mudbone: See I've lived through hard times before. People talk about these as hard times. Hard times was way back. They didn't even have a year for it. Just called it "Hard Times." It was dark all the time. I think the sun came out on Wednesday. And it you didn't have your ass up early. You missed it. So I happened to be out there one Wednesday… and the sun hit me right in the face. I grabbed a bunch of it and rubbed it all over myself.

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.

But you cannot urge national political renewal on the basis of descriptions of fact. You have to describe the country in terms of what you passionately hope it will become, as well as in the terms of what you know it to be now. You have to be loyal to a dream country rather than to the one to which you wake up every morning. Unless such loyalty exists, the ideal has no chance of becoming actual.

I'm the boy who's going to glom onto this junk—if I'm lucky.

Here see the opposite disposition between the holy nature of Christ, and the impure nature of man. Man for a little smoke will quench the light; Christ ever we see cherisheth even the least beginnings. How bare he with the many imperfections of his poor disciples. If he did sharply check them, it was in love, and that they might shine the brighter. Can we have a better pattern to follow than this of him by whom we hope to be saved?

God can pick sense out of a confused prayer.

Perfect refining is for another world

The heroic deeds of those great worthies do not comfort the church so much as their falls and bruises do.

A holy despair in ourselves is the ground of true hope. In God the fatherless find mercy (Hos. 14:3); if men were more fatherless, they should feel more God's fatherly affection from heaven, for the God who dwells in the highest heavens dwells likewise in the lowest soul (Isa. 57:15).

holy despair in ourselves is the basis for true hope. In God the fatherless find mercy (Hos. 14:3). If men were more fatherless, they should feel more God's fatherly affection from heaven, for the God who dwells in the highest heavens dwells likewise in the lowest soul (Isa. 57:15).

It should be the art of Christians to present death as a passage to a better life, to labour to bring our souls into such a condition, as to think death not to be a death to us, but the death of itself. Death dies when I die, and I begin to live when I die. It is a sweet passage to life. We never live till we die.

Two things trouble the peace of Christians very much (1), their weaknesses hanging upon them, and (2) fear of holding out for time to come.

Are you dejected? here is comfort; are you sinful? here is righteousness; are you led away with present contentments? here you have honours, and pleasures, and all in Christ Jesus.

We are only poor for this reason, that we do not know our riches in Christ.

Oh, the things we invent when we are scared and want to be rescued.

And the gentleness that comes, not from the absence of violence, but despite the abundance of it.

I'm not suggesting the world is good, that life is easy, or that any of us are entitled to better. But please, isn't this the kind of thing you talk about in somber tones, in the afternoon, with some degree of hope and maybe even a handful of strategies?

You just wanted to prove there was one safe place, just one safe place where you could love him. You have not found that place yet.

I hope it's love. I'm trying really hard to make it love.