Quotes About Hope

Life, laughter, and pleasure will be the last word rather than death, crying, and pain.

Purgatory is hope.

One may hope that in the very moment of death, lost souls turn to God, and instead of passing through the gates of hell to hopeless eternal misery, they go instead to purgatory.

To believe in God is to believe not only that love is stronger than death but also that joy is stronger than boredom.

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I am probably the most selfish man you will ever meet in your life. No one gets the satisfaction or the joy that I get out of seeing kids realize there is hope.

Pray for intestinal fortitude, work hard, and keep the faith. Oh, and pray for good luck, you're gonna need it.

Today he would believe. Tomorrow would answer for itself.

Love is hard sometimes. Life throws all kinds of things at us, and some aren't too pleasant.

Dreams are just to show us the way, to give us courage when the road gets hard, and to give us hope when we find the thorns on the rosebush. Dreams are neither evil nor to be rejected.

Don't keep on with what is wrong. Look ahead, not behind.

Recessions are hard on people, but they are not hard on art.

The most successful people in the world are those who have the ability to perceive what is possible even when it looks impossible. They look beyond the obstacle blocking their success and they recognize that through perseverance, they will ultimately be victorious.

I love what it says in Psalm 62:5: "My soul, wait thou only upon God: for my expectation is from Him." THE MESSAGE puts it this way: "God, the one and only—I'll wait as long as he says. Everything I hope for comes from him, so why not?" Isn't that awesome? Everything you hope for comes from God. Everything!

Replace that old picture of defeat and failure with a new picture of victory and success.

I don't major on my past. I major on my future and my future is bright in God.

Life is truly a ride. We're all strapped in and no one can stop it. When the doctor slaps your behind, he's ripping your ticket and away you go. As you make each passage from youth to adulthood to maturity, sometimes you put your arms up and scream, sometimes you just hang on to that bar in front of you. But the ride is the thing. I think the most you can hope for at the end of life is that your hair's messed, you're out of breath, and you didn't throw up.

My prayer as you read this book is that you will find comfort for the disappointment of unanswered prayer, but also courage to continue on the epic journey that prayer is.

The good that may come out of the loss does not erase its badness or excuse the wrong done. Nothing can do that.

prayer is the one discipline in the Christian faith that makes us feel entirely dependent on God and thus sets us up for profound disappointment when God doesn't respond to our needs and requests.

the book is intended to show how it is possible to live in and be enlarged by loss, even as we continue to experience it.

Although unanswered prayer is indeed a theme of the book, it is not the heart of the book, for unanswered prayer describes a problem but offers no solutions.

The central theme of the book is that prayer is best understood as a long, sometimes perilous, epic journey that eventually leads to triumph.

The trouble with miracles is, they don't last long.