Quotes about Hope

Sometimes the Lord rides out the storm with us and other times He calms the restless sea around us. Most of all, He calms the storm inside us in our deepest inner soul.

You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.

One word or a pleasing smile is often enough to raise up a saddened and wounded soul.

That's one thing Earthlings might learn to do, if they tried hard enough: Ignore the awful times and concentrate on the good ones.

Choose today to let the peace of Christ rule in your heart and have an attitude of gratitude toward the Lord. Even if you have things that are upsetting you, take a step of faith and begin to thank God for His goodness in your life. Thank Him for working behind the scenes on your behalf. As you do, you will walk forward into the life of blessing He has in store for you!

In some ways suffering ceases to be suffering at the moment it finds a meaning, such as the meaning of a sacrifice.

We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficient proof that everything can be taken from a man but one thing: the last of the human freedoms -- to choose one's attitude in any given set of circumstances, to choose one's own way.

I am still far from being what I want to be, but with God's help I shall succeed.

Someday death will take us to another star.

In spite of everything, I shall rise again; I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.

In the end we shall have had enough of cynicism, skepticism and humbug, and we shall want to live more musically.

I confess I do not know why, but looking at the stars always makes me dream.