Quotes about Hope

He who is united to Christ and lives within the circle of his love, to him the eternal retention of the supreme eschatological life is absolutely secure.

there is something about these expectations and visions of the last things, that will send them into the light and focus of the consciousness of believers, whenever storms of persecution arise and hard distresses invade.

If we are true believers, though we ourselves should sometimes forget, the world will not fail to remind us of the difference between it and us. And, on the other hand, if we at any time feel perfectly at home in the world, if our consciousness of its necessary antagonism to us is entirely in abeyance, then there is abundant reason for us to examine ourselves. And the probability is that we have been backward in cultivating our hope upon God and the world to come.

Life is a flame that is always burning itself out, but it catches fire again every time a child is born.

Gambling promises the poor what property performs for the rich--something for nothing.

It is never too late to be what we might have been.

We must not sit still and look for miracles up and doing, and the Lord will be with thee. Prayer and pains, through faith in Christ Jesus, will do anything.

If youth is the season of hope, it is often so only in the sense that our elders are hopeful about us.

It seems to me we can never give up longing and wishing while we are still alive. There are certain things we feel to be beautiful and good, and we must hunger for them.

No evil dooms us hopelessly except the evil we love, and desire to continue in, and make no effort to escape from.

The point was not to die, since death came anyway, but to survive, which would be a miracle.

He hoped that none of his descendants would get mixed up in politics, which was a trade for butchers and bandits.