Quotes About Hope

If you cast your bread upon the water and you have faith, you'll get back cash. If you don't have faith, you'll get soggy bread.

Wine makes us proud of our past," said one official. "It gives us courage and hope." How else to explain why vignerons in Champagne rushed into their vineyards to harvest the 1915 vintage even as artillery shells were falling all around?

There are a lot of things that manage to get broken in a life, most of them never to be put back together again.

What I like about Christmas is that you can make people forget the past with the present.

an optimist is a guy that has never had much experience.

Publishing a volume of verse is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Publishing a book of poetry is like dropping a rose petal down the Grand Canyon and waiting for the echo.

Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feel as good as ever.

If "ifs" and "buts" were candy and nuts, wouldn't it be a Merry Christmas?

forget the ink, the milk, the blood - all was washed clean with the flood we rose up from the falling waters the fallen rain's own sons and daughters and none of this, none of this matters.

It was not bleeding quite so badly now, he decided—or maybe he was just running out of blood.

I want to experience everything heaven offers, but most of all, I want to hear those never-ending songs again.

Heaven was many things, but without a doubt, it was the greatest family reunion of all.

Unworthy as I am, he allowed me to go to heaven, and I know the next time I go there, I'll stay.

God still answers prayers, God still performs miracles. Heaven is real.

I have absolutely no fear of death. Why would I? There's nothing to fear-only joy to experience.

I woke up to singing and found myself singing too

Just as it was necessary to reinflate my lungs to overcome pneumonia, I needed the breath of God to help me overcome the depression of my spirit. I

When we're up against a struggle and we think we can't keep going, we can change that by praising God.

That's perhaps the biggest miracle: People prayed and God honored their prayers. As

God had chosen to keep me alive. Even in my worst moments of depression and self-pity, I never forgot that. Christy

couldn't say it, but I believed then-and still do-that I survived only because a number of people wanted me to. They were relentless, passionate, and desperate, and they believed God would hear them. People prayed for me who had never seriously prayed before; some who hadn't uttered a word of petition in years cried out to God to spare me. My experience brought people to their knees, and many of them had changed in the process of praying for me to live.

None of the hymns that filled the air were about Jesus' sacrifice or death. I heard no sad songs and instinctively knew that there are no sad songs in heaven.

Most of the time when people have that if-you-can-do-it attitude, I nod, acknowledge what they're saying, and add, "I'm just doing the best I can." And really, that's all I did during the worst days. Sometimes "the best I can" was nothing but to endure. Even when I struggled with depression, it was still the best I could do.