Quotes about Hope

When may a revival be expected? When the wickedness of the wicked grieves and distresses the Christian.

I believe that better times are coming.

We cannot despair of humanity, since we ourselves are human beings.

Don't wait for miracles, your whole life is a miracle.

In their struggle for the ethical good, teachers of religion must have the stature to give up the doctrine of a personal God, that is, give up that source of fear and hope which in the past placed such vast power in the hands of priests'.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

No holiday is ever anything but a disappointment.

I drank to the imminent of His Coming, he repeated, with a sincere attempt to feel that the coming was imminent; but the eyebrow continued to haunt him, and the Coming, as far as he was concerned, was horribly remote.

To think of God as mere Power, and not also, at the same time as Power, Love and Wisdom, comes quite naturally to the ordinary, unregenerate human mind. Only the totally selfless are in a position to know experimentally that, in spite of everything, 'all will be well' and, in some way, already is well.

But don't stop worshiping. Never give up in the desert. You don't know how wide it is, and you may be almost across.

I have learned to live each day as it comes, and not to borrow trouble by dreading tomorrow. It is the dark menace of the future that makes cowards of us.

People say, what is the sense of our small effort? They cannot see that we must lay one brick at a time, take one step at a time. A pebble cast into a pond causes ripples that spread in all directions. Each one of our thoughts, words and deeds is like that. No one has a right to sit down and feel hopeless. There is too much work to do.