Quotes about Hope

The sky calls to us. If we do not destroy ourselves, we will one day venture to the stars.

And it is here that we are, in some pain and with no guarantees, working out our destiny.

When I wake up I go through an abbreviated process of mourning all over again. Plainly, there's something within me that's ready to believe in life after death. And it's not the least bit interested in whether there's any sober evidence for it.

The evidence, so far at least and laws of Nature aside, does not require a Designer. Maybe there is one hiding, maddeningly unwilling to be revealed. Sometimes it seems a very slender hope.

A still more glorious dawn awaits.

Taken together, the dramatic societal shifts — often in ten generations or less — provide a compelling refutation of the claim that we are condemned, without hope of reprieve, to live out our lives in a barely disguised chimpanzee social order.

You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.

God wouldn't exist just because she forced herself to believe, any more than Cade would be all right just because she wanted him to be.

The Lord sometimes uses sorrow in our lives to deepen us," Miss Lucy says. "This is one of those times." "Why do we have to be deep?" I wonder aloud. Miss Lucy looks at me as if she's never considered that question. "Because what good are we if we're shallow? He can use us when we have some depth. He had sorrows, so why shouldn't we?

God will help you," Maggie said. "He's just waiting to be asked.

He was bitter about many things, but not about God. He still prayed constantly. Still went to church. Still reminded her that God loved her and was watching.

There's something healing about sitting here and listening to the waves, knowing that God is still in control even when it seems like he's not.