Quotes about Hope

Forgiveness is letting go of the hope that the past can be changed.

Forgiveness is giving up the hope that the past could have been any different.

Christ reigns in order to save." (Hom. in Luc. 30)

If we truly know why we trust God—and that crucial if must be answered with full intellectual and spiritual assurance—if we truly know why we trust God, then God is greater than all, and God may be trusted in all situations, despite everyone and everything.

The only hope of success is the way of love as agape rather than eros. From this rival perspective, the secret of the search is not our "great ascent" but "the great descent" - of God toward us. Instead of the seeker finding love, love seeks out the seeker - not because the seeker is worthy of love but simply because love's nature is to love regardless of the worthiness or merit of the one loved.

As Simone Weil and others have established beyond question, only someone in touch with the eternal can hope to be eternally relevant—and faithful too.

Dreamers can find their way by moonlight and their only punishment is that they see the dawn before the rest of the world.

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

When a man is at his wits' end it is not a cowardly thing to pray, it is the only way he can get in touch with Reality.

I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.

Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.

God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.