"Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate."

Hope, Cheerfulness, Power, Desperation

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"Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we know to be desperate."

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"Rainy, gloomy, drab, sunless day. There are times when hope seems entirely clouded over, when looking for the blessings in your circumstances feels like trying to catch a ray of sunshine from six feet under."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

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"Melt all the tanks in the world and make them rubbish bins. They will be much more useful for the humanity!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

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"I preach a Gospel not of despair but of hope for the individual, hope for society, and hope for the world."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"The New Year is a painting not yet painted; a path not yet stepped on; a wing not yet taken off! Things haven't happened as yet! Before the clock strikes twelve, remember that you are blessed with the ability to reshape your life!"

Mehmet Murat ildan, Turkish Philosopher

Hope, Truth, Wisdom, Power, Inspirational

"As long as you look only at the situation in the world today, it will be very hard . . . to overcome your worries because it is true that there are many problems and the future is unknown to us. Lift your eyes beyond your circumstances and learn instead to trust God. Worrying . . . won't change anything."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

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"Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Hope, Future, Love, Truth, Life

"Bible teaching about the Second Coming of Christ was thought of as “doomsday” preaching. But not anymore. It is the only ray of hope that shines as an ever brightening beam in a darkening world."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Hope, Bible, Optimism, About

"My hope does not rest in the affairs of this world. It rests in Christ who is coming again."

Billy Graham, American Clergyman

Hope, Does, Optimism, Rest

"I wish upon a glimmering star,My hopes as distant and as far. So if this wish does not come true,I'm thankful for the few that do."

Richelle E. Goodrich, American Poet

Hope, Happiness, Truth, Inspirational

"I took a breath and let it go and suddenly the air was crisper and my lungs lighter and suddenly there was him saying my name in different ways and I catch myself throwing glances in the mirror, seeing someone I don't know quite yet but I can't wait to, and that is the start of everything."

Charlotte Eriksson, American Psychologist

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"Happiness is a mystery, like religion, and should never be rationalised."

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"When we really worship anything, we love not only its clearness but its obscurity. We exult in its very invisibility."

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"Let your religion be less of a theory and more of a love affair."

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"Experience which was once claimed by the aged is now claimed exclusively by the young."

Experience

"Brave men are all vertebrates; they have their softness on the surface and their toughness in the middle."

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"The aim of life is appreciation; there is no sense in not appreciating things; and there is no sense in having more of them if you have less appreciation of them."

Life

"The crux and crisis is that man found it natural to worship, even natural to worship unnatural things."

Religion

"Nobody can imagine how nothing could turn into something. Nobody can get an inch nearer to it by explaining how something could turn into something else. It is really far more logical to start by saying 'In the beginning God created heaven and earth' even ifyou only mean 'In the beginning some unthinkable power began some unthinkable process.' For God is by its nature aname of mystery, and nobody ever supposed that man could imagine how a world was created any more than he couldcreate one. But evolution really is mistaken for explanation. It has the fatal quality of leaving on many minds the impression that they do understand it and everything else."

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"Somewhere embedded in every ordinary book are the five or six words for which really all the rest will be written."

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