Quotes about Hope

I would rather believe God doesn't exist than believe he doesn't care.

On his own, he was lost. On his knees, he knew he was found.

I have to come to realize that God does not want to punish us, but rather, to fulfill our lives. God created us, loves us and wants to help us to realize our potential so that we can be useful to others.

Faith is not believing that God can. It is knowing that God will.

If there had been a Jewish state in the first half of the century, there would have been no Holocaust. And if there had not been a Jewish state after the Holocaust, there would have been no Jewish future. The State of Israel is not only the repository of the millennial Jewish hopes for redemption; it is also the one practical instrument for assuring Jewish survival.

the philosopher Moses Maimonides declared that the return to Israel was the only hope of an end to Jewish suffering at the hands of the Arabs, of whom he writes that 'Never did a nation molest, degrade, debase, and hate us as much as they.

I'll work to ensure that every single refugee who seeks asylum in the United States has a fair chance to tell his or her story. This is the least we can offer people fleeing persecution and devastation.

I am a person of great faith and idealism and have been in too many situations too many times to become an eternal pessimist regarding politics.

I want readers to rehearse that day when everything shatters and think through what they'll hang onto when that happens.

Because I remember, I despair. Because I remember, I have the duty to reject despair.

I do not know what the future holds for me.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!