Quotes about Hope

Faith, as well intentioned as it may be, must be built on facts, not fiction--faith in fiction is a damnable false hope.

When you reach the end of your rope, tie a knot in it and hang on.

My views and feelings (are) in favor of the abolition of war--and I hope it is practicable, by improving the mind and morals of society, to lessen the disposition to war; but of its abolition I despair.

The very contradictions in my life are in some ways signs of God's mercy to me.

Solitude is not something you must hope for in the future. Rather, it is a deepening of the present, and unless you look for it in the present you will never find it.

You do not need to know precisely what is happening, or exactly where it is all going. What you need is to recognize the possibilities and challenges offered by the present moment, and to embrace them with courage, faith and hope.

Anxiety is the mark of spiritual insecurity.

Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency that has never felt the need of forgiveness. A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless than one that always verges on despair.

it be told to the future world, that in the depth of winter, when nothing but hope and virtue could survive, that the city and the country, alarmed at one common danger, came forth to meet and to repulse it. Say not that thousands are gone, turn out your tens of thousands; throw not the burden of the day upon Providence, but "show your faith by your works," that God may bless you.

We may not only find faith in God in our sorrow. We may also become faithful to Him in times of calm.

God sweetens outward pain with inward peace.

A weak faith can lay hold on a strong Christ.