The capacity for hope is the most significant fact of life. It provides human beings with a sense of destination and the energy to get started.
What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God.
Beware how you take away hope from another human being.
We must rediscover the distinction between hope and expectation.
Tomorrow hopes we have learned something from yesterday.
Hope is the only universal liar who never loses his reputation for veracity.
We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.
Hope is like peace. It is not a gift from God. It is a gift only we can give one another.
Never deprive someone of hope; it might be all they have.
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.
At the end of the day, all you can hope for is to go on. The older I get, the more I realize that just keeping on keeping on is what life’s all about.
Hope is a risk that must be run.
Extreme hopes are born from extreme misery.
Isn’t it the moment of most profound doubt that gives birth to new certainties? Perhaps hopelessness is the very soil that nourishes human hope; perhaps one could never find sense in life without first experiencing its absurdity.
Hopeful thinking can get you out of your fear zone and into your appreciation zone.
The sudden disappointment of a hope leaves a scar which the ultimate fulfillment of that hope never entirely removes.
When I was young, my ambition was to be one of the people who made a difference in this world. My hope is to leave the world a little better for having been there.
Hope is independent of the apparatus of logic.
Hope is the word which God has written on the brow of every man.
Hope is tomorrow’s veneer over today’s disappointment.
Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.
It’s time to get real, folks. Hope and change ain’t working. Hope and change is not a solution. Hope and change is not a job.
Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.
There can be hope only for a society which acts as one big family, not as many separate ones.
Chance has never yet satisfied the hope of a suffering people.
