Quotes about Hope

A man who goes around with a prophecy-gun ought never to get discouraged: if he will keep up his heart and fire at everything he sees, he is bound to hit something by and by.

Had I never loved, I never would have been unhappy; but I turn to Him who can save, and if His wisdom does not will my expected union, I know He will give me strength to bear my lot.

She went to the open door and stood in it and looked out among the tomato vines and jimpson weeds that constituted the garden. No Tom. So she lifted up her voice at an angle calculated for distance and shouted:

If I be not in a state of Grace, I pray God place me in it; if I be in it, I pray God keep me so.

He felt much as a man might who had danced blithely out to enjoy a rainbow, and got struck by lightning.

When I talk to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI) and other patient support groups, I take questions at the end. At one talk I was asked, "What's the difference between yourself and someone without mental illness?" At another talk I was asked, "How do you make the voices be not so mean?" I wish I knew.

We refuse to believe that there are insufficient funds in the great vaults of opportunity of this nation.

The arc of the moral universe is long, but it bends toward justice." Change takes a long time, but it does happen. ... Each of us who works for social change is part of the mosaic of all who work for justice; together we can accomplish multitudes.

And somewhere along the way it is necessary to see that human progress never rolls in on the wheels of inevitability. It comes through the tireless efforts and the persistent work of dedicated individuals who are willing to be co-workers with God.

No person has the right to rain on your dreams.

There can be no deep disappointment where there is not deep love.

Free at last, Free at last, Thank God almighty we are free at last.