Quotes About Hope

Though my father and mother forsook me, the Lord would gather me in. -Psalm 27:10

The darkness of the whole world cannot swallow the glowing of a candle.

Consciously or unconsciously, you always get what you expect.

We fear the thing we want the most.

an optimistic mind-set finds dozens of possible solutions for every problem that the pessimist regards as incurable.

But as the theologian Reinhold Niebuhr once said, "Nothing that is worth doing can be achieved in our lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope. Nothing which is true or beautiful or good makes complete sense in any immediate context of history.

revolutionaries are more likely to be those who have been given at least some taste of a better life.

Thank you sir," she said. "I hope that your friend feels better soon." I shrugged. "The ways of the Lord" I said, "are often dark, but never pleasant.

Let America be America again," pleaded Hughes: "The land that never has been yet— / And yet must be—the land where every man is free. / The land that's mine—the poor man's, Indian's, Negro's, ME—

But in the resurrection of Jesus from the dead, this stunning truth is revealed: God is not on the side of the

I would almost rather we had died that day than to have found ourselves here, lost somewhere between the dreaming and the coming true.

Lord, grant us rest tonight, and if we must be wakeful, cheerful.

At the point where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.

If you knew that hope and despair were paths to the same destination, which would you choose?

There is no tomorrow. There is only a planet turning on its axis, and a creature given to optimistic fancies.

On a windswept hill by a billowing sea, my destiny sits and waits for me.

Where hope would otherwise become hopelessness, it becomes faith.

Often it's just a short swim from the shipwreck of your life to the island paradise of your dreams, assuming you don't drown in the metaphor.

Toss your dashed hopes not into a trash bin but into a drawer where you are likely to rummage some bright morning.

Some say that true love is a mirage; seek it anyway, for all else is surely desert.

In the end, no thought is unthinkable, no problem unshrinkable, no two strangers unlinkable.

If you've never experienced the joy of accomplishing more than you can imagine, plant a garden.

Each morning I gaze at the eastern horizon, and if the sun keeps its promise, I keep mine.

Through the blackest night, morning gently tiptoes, feeling its way to dawn.