Quotes about Hope
Wonder—the enthusiastic ardor for the sublimity of being, for its worthiness to be an object of knowledge—promises to become the point of departure for genuine insight only where it has reached the stage in which the subject, overwhelmed by the object, has, as it were, fused into a single point or into nothing… like the movement of hope and love toward God, which is genuine and selfless only where it has assumed the attitude of pure worship of God for his own sake.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
God is not, in the first place, 'absolute power', but 'absolute love'.
— Hans Urs von Balthasar
For many of us, we will come to the point where death will be the only healer for the pain which our lives will have come to contain.
— Harold S. Kushner
Bad things do happen to good people in this world, but it is not God who wills it. God would like people to get what they deserve in life, but He cannot always arrange it. Forced to choose between a good God who is not totally powerful, or a powerful God who is not totally good, the author of the Book of Job chooses to believe in God's goodness.
— Harold S. Kushner
As the Persian poet Rumi once wrote, 'Light enters at the place of the wound.
— Harold S. Kushner
What God does is promise us, I will be with you; you will feel burdened but you will never feel abandoned.
— Harold S. Kushner
Instead of exhausting ourselves trying to reshape the world to fit our dreams, we are better off using our strength to comfort one another in a world that is almost certain to mock our dreams and break our hearts.
— Harold S. Kushner
God does not send the problem, the illness, the accident, the hurricane, and God does not take them away when we find the right words and rituals with which to beseech Him. Rather, God sends us strength and determination of which we did not believe ourselves capable, so that we can deal with, or live with, problems that no one can make go away.
— Harold S. Kushner
The task of religion is not to teach us to bow our heads and accept God's inscrutable will. It is to help us find the resources to live meaningfully and to go on believing, even in a world where people often don't get what they deserve.
— Harold S. Kushner
You are not a prisoner of your past; you are the architect of your future.
— Harold S. Kushner
not take them away when we find the right words and rituals with which to beseech Him. Rather, God sends us strength and determination of which we did not believe ourselves capable, so that we can deal with, or live with, problems that no one can make go away.
— Harold S. Kushner
God does not send the problem. God sends us the strength to deal with the problem.
— Harold S. Kushner