Quotes About Hope

On the day he was released, the man walked out the gates, turned, and to the astonishment of the guards, kissed the walls of the prison camp. "Here," he explained, "I found God, and He found me, and I am so thankful.

He takes up men who have come to an end of themselves, and whose trust and confidence is not in themselves but in God.

If we demand a certain answer, we set ourselves up for disappointment, and if disappointment isn't arrested, it will soon lead to discouragement.

The mark of true faith is steadfast trust in God when we don't see what He's doing or how He's doing it.

Encouragement is the oxygen of the soul

Faith for my deliverance is not faith in God. Faith means, whether I am visibly delivered or not, I will stick to my belief that God is love."—OSWALD CHAMBERS

We wait expectantly, trusting that a good, wise, all-knowing God will accomplish His gracious purposes in His good time. We trust that while we wait He's preparing the situation, other people, or us for something special.

When God is all we have left, we then realize that God is all we need."—IKE REIGHARD

We rivet our hearts on God's character, and we are sure that waiting on Him to act will be worth every second.

failure is an event, it is not a person—yesterday ended last night—today is a brand new day and it's yours.

patience becomes a reality in us because we cling to God during times when we long for quick, complete solutions to our problems.

A vision without a task is but a dream. A task without a vision is drudgery. But a vision and a task are the hope of the world.

If there is hope in the future, then there is power in the present."—JOHN MAXWELL

Hope is the engine of your attitude, and your attitude determines your altitude.

Always remember that your present situation is not your final destination. The best is yet to come.

there's a rainbow in the sky, all the time, don't be blind

The best recipe for happiness and contentment I've seen is this: dig a big hole in the garden of your thoughts and put into it all your disillusions, disappointments, regrets, worries, troubles, doubts, and fears. Cover well with the earth of fruitfulness. Water it from the well of contentment. Sow on top the seeds of hope, courage, strength, patience, and love. Then when the time for gathering comes, may your harvest be a rich and fruitful one.

Of a promise," Raamo said. "I dreamed of a promise that has always been, and always will be.

I love Madrid. I am happy to be here. I have been here three years and hope to be here longer. But I am proud of where I come from and never forget the people I grew up with.

Human beings are not machines, and however powerful the pressure to conform, they sometimes are so moved by what they see as injustice that they dare to declare their independence. In that historical possibility lies hope.

It must surely be a tribute to the resilience of the human spirit that even a small number of those men and women in the hell of the prison system survive it and hold on to their humanity.

I am supposing, or perhaps only hoping, that our future may be found in the past's fugitive moments of compassion rather than in its solid centuries of warfare.

Whenever I become discouraged (which is on alternate Tuesdays, between three and four) I lift my spirits by remembering: The artists are on our side! I mean those poets and painters, singers and musicians, novelists and playwrights who speak to the world in a way that is impervious to assault because they wage the battle for justice in a sphere which is unreachable by the dullness of ordinary political discourse.

I'm a child in that respect: able to live, physically speaking, on a crumb of anticipation for weeks at a time, but always in danger of crushing the waited-for event with the freight of my excessive hope.