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Hope Quotes


"You and I, God's ambassadors, are called to sound the warning, to call sinners to repentance, to point the way to peace with God and the hope that is in Christ."


"If the sky had no tears, the world would have no rainbows."


"The resurrection is our great hope."



"Ask me again, once we defeat Gaea."


"The message of Christmas is a message of hope when all other such messages created by men can do nothing more than be hopeful."


"Hope is soothing, but it can become deceptive if we cling to it as the last resort against reality."


"It is truly horrible to understand yourself as the essential below of your country. It breaks too much of what we would like to think about ourselves, our lives, the world we move through and the people who surround us. The struggle to understand is our only advantage over this madness."


"When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens."


"No matter what happens, or how bad it seems today, life does go on, and it will be better tomorrow."


"Hope is desire and expectation rolled into one."



"Hope is important because it can make the present moment less difficult to bear. If we believe that tomorrow will be better, we can bear a hardship today."


"Hope is a Heaven to keep you out of Hell. It's hard work believing that it's there."


"I thought that a fairer era of life was beginning for me, one that was to have its flowers and pleasures, as well as its thorns and toils. My faculties, roused by the change of scene, the new field offered to hope, seemed all astir. I cannot precisely define what they expected, but it was something pleasant: not perhaps that day or month, but at an indefinite future period."


"I looked out across the Ocean, and determined to drown myself.I was up to my chin when the shout came, and I will never forget it. Never. For it seems to me that any hope in life is such a shout; a voice that answers the silent place of despair. It is silence that most needs an answering - when I can no longer speak, hear me."


"Whenever my colleagues and I encounter a boy who acts "normal"-not explosively violent, not oppositional to every word, not obsessed with killing and dying, not focused on sexual objectification-we are overjoyed with his potential. Here is one who has a stronger foundation on which to build, one who will not knock down his every success like a child with a brick castle to see if the adults will keep helping him rebuild."


"Light always overcomes darkness."


"When this world totally fails, the ground for joy remains."



"Sometimes things become possible if we want them bad enough."


"What good would it do toshutter your windows, neverdream of rainbows or find hopein promises? Why choose to walk awayrather than hold your groundand fight for love?"


"We must restore hope to young people, help the old, be open to the future, spread love. Be poor among the poor. We need to include the excluded and preach peace."


"And then, despite everything, I smiled and looked at the note and knew that spring would come -it always does. so I stared out that cold window, watching my breath collect on the glass, trying not to think about my life after the thaw."


"The promise of hope provides more comfort than the limitations of doubt."


"The mountain of despair has dwindled, and the stone of hope has size and shape, and can be fondled by the eyes and by the hand. But freedom has always been an elusive tease, and in the very act of grabbing for it one can become shackled."


"People without hope not only don't write novels, but what is more to the point, they don't read them."


"Selfishness must always be forgiven you know, because there is no hope of a cure."



"Humor is almost always anger with its make-up on."
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