"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

Hope, Optimism, Certainty, Conviction

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"Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out."

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"Come, gentlemen, I hope we shall drink down all unkindness."

William Shakespeare, English Dramatist

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"Historians will probably call our era “the age of anxiety.” Anxiety is the natural result when our hopes are centered in anything short of God and His will for us."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Gloom and darkness are temporary. Joy comes in the morning."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"I don't think people can live without hope. What oxygen is to the lungs, hope is to our survival in this world. And the Bible is filled with hope."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope."

Samuel Johnson, English Author

Hope, Mind, Pleasure

"What a thrilling future for those of us who know that some day we will populate the kingdom of God."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"There is not only the present, but there is a future waiting for us as well."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"Even if the circumstances around you are like darkness, believe that God will give you light."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"There will come a day when your vision will be fulfilled."

Sunday Adelaja, Nigerian Author

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"This should be the motto of every follower of Jesus Christ. Never stop praying no matter now dark and hopeless it may seem."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"I really do inhabit a system in which words are capable of shaking the entire structure of government, where words can prove mightier than ten military divisions."

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"Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good."

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"None of us know all the potentialities that slumber in the spirit of the population, or all the ways in which that population can surprise us when there is the right interplay of events."

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"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."

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"The salvation of this human world lies nowhere else than in the human heart, in the human power to reflect, in human meekness and human responsibility."

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"There's always something suspect about an intellectual on the winning side."

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"There are times when we must sink to the bottom of our misery to understand truth, just as we must descend to the bottom of a well to see the stars in broad daylight."

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"I think theatre should always be somewhat suspect."

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