Quotes about Hope

Hope bases vast premises upon foolish accidents and reads a word where, in fact, only a scribble exists.

And yet does the appetite for new days ever really cease?

Walking toward the light. None of us lives in the light; we can only walk toward it, with the eyes and legs God has given us.

To become less and transmit more, to replenish energy with wisdom - some such hope, at this more than midpoint in my life, is the reason why I write.

Live. Live, brothers, though there be naught but shame and failure to furnish forth your living.

The thought of these people having the bold idea of leaving their homes to come here and pray pleases and reassures Rabbit, and moves him to close his own eyes and bow his head with a movement so tiny that Ruth won't notice. Help me, Christ. Forgive me. Take me down the way. Bless Ruth, Janice, Nelson, my mother and father, Mr. and Mrs. Springer, and the unborn baby. Forgive Tothero and all the others. Amen.

Your heart lifts forever through that blank sky.

Sweetie, the bluebird has flown. We're too young to sit around the rest of our lives waiting for it to fly back in the window. It won't. It can't fly backwards.' He was using his hands again in that disagreeable stagey way, and Ruth was angered by the flicker of conceit in his expression when he struck upon the image of the bluebird fying backwards - a piece of animation on the screen of his face.

You must believe in what you're doing, that what you're doing is the proper thing, the right thing. And you must have faith that things will end up as they should, which doesn't mean as you want them to, but things will work out as they should.

Your faith, whatever it may be, is the greatest shelter of all.

My Favorite Four-Letter Words: "Kids" and "Love

God is merciful to those who want to love Him and who have placed their hopes in Him.