Quotes about Hope

Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

Take your needle, my child, and work at your pattern; it will come out a rose by and by. Life is like that - one stitch at a time taken patiently and the pattern will come out all right like the embroidery.

When I look into the future, it's so bright it burns my eyes.

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.