Quotes About Hope

One couldn't be afraid or bitter where love was—and love was everywhere.

Isn't it nice to think that tomorrow is always fresh with no mistakes in it yet?

Well, let us hope for the best, as Susan says; things are really going well now and if Rumania lines up, the end may come with a suddenness that will surprise us all." Rumania did come in — and Susan remarked approvingly that its king and queen were the finest looking royal couple she had seen pictures of.

Mrs Lynde was complaining the other day that it wasn't much of a world. She said whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed… that nothing ever came up to your expectations. Well, perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either… they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

Sure and ye've only got to live one day at a time, darlint. One can always be living just one more day.

God's in His heaven, alls right with the world.

He jumped into the pond to drown himself once and then changed his mind and swum out again. Wasn't that like a man?

What if I'm truly never happy again? What if I've just experienced the most happiness, the most love, I'll ever know?

To overcome my fear, I shackled myself with hope, its links heavier than any metal known to man.

Telling a story is like sowing a seed—you always hope to see it become a beautiful tree, with firm roots and branches that soar up in the sky. But it is a peculiar sowing, for you will never know whether your seed sprouts or dies.

We have two options, medically and emotionally: give up or fight like hell.

The Wizard of Oz." "No, no, no," said Sophie. She quickly

The Christian always has reason to celebrate. When we fail, celebrate His grace. When we are blessed, celebrate His mercy. When others reject us, celebrate His love.

And life (or God) seems to reply, "Get ready! The other shoe is going to drop. When? I want to surprise you.

When you can't figure Me out, you will give up the illusion of predictability and control and discover the joy and freedom of hope.

That level of honesty is reserved for the counseling office. Church is too often a place of pretense and therefore a place without hope. When brokenness is disdained, where the real story is never told, the power of God is not felt. Where brokenness is invited and received with grace, the gospel comes alive with hope.

And then he thought, profoundly, how there was something grand about living in hope, but also something terribly unreal and incomplete about it, because when you were hoping, you were not doing or living or experiencing the Now

He knew what he could certainly do, and what he might do if he was lucky, and what he couldn't do barring a miracle.

As she was finishing her song, the notes dipped down low—they carried a sadness that was more than a sadness at the death of men; rather it was a sadness at the lives of men, and of women. It reminded those who heard the rising, dipping notes, of notes of hopes that had been born, and, yet, died; of promise, and the failure of promise.

he had learned in his years of tracking Indians that things which seemed impossible often weren't. They only became so if one thought about them too much so that fear took over.

Is the girl all right?" "She's had an ordeal but she's young," Augustus said. "She won't forget it, but she might outlive it.

In the night Lorena tried to sort it out in her mind. She had been hungry so much, tired so much, scared so much, that her mind didn't work well anymore. Sometimes she would try to remember something and couldn't—it was as if her mind and memory had gone and hidden somewhere until things were better.

He didn't feel sad. The one thing he knew about Texas was that he was lucky to be leaving it alive—and, in fact, he had a long way to go before he could be sure of accomplishing that much.

He thought living in a place where there were eagles to watch might encourage some pretty good dreams.