hope

"God's mercy and grace give me hope - for myself, and for our world."

"Behaving morally because of a hope of reward or a fear of punishment is not morality. Morality is not bribery or threats. Religion is bribery and threats. Humans have morality. We don't need religion."

"Is it possible for home to be a person and not a place?"

"Our uniqueness, our individuality, and our life experience molds us into fascinating beings. I hope we can embrace that. I pray we may all challenge ourselves to delve into the deepest resources of our hearts to cultivate an atmosphere of understanding, acceptance, tolerance, and compassion. We are all in this life together."

"Have faith in your beliefs"

"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

"Mother can beat me all she wants, but I haven’t let her take away my will to somehow survive."

"When my dad founded our church, he used either a globe or a map of the world behind him. It was symbolic of what Christ said: to go forth and preach hope to the world. We believe in the cross, but we just continued with the globe."

"A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm."

"He who despairs of the human condition is a coward, but he who has hope for it is a fool."

"Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly."

"I want to be the best version of myself for anyone who is going to someday walk into my life and need someone to love them beyond reason."

"While the heart beats, hope lingers."

"While there's life, there's hope."

"We need international support so that our people live a life of normality, of dignity, of liberty and freedom. I hope that our cry for freedom may be heard."

"Yesterday is history, tomorrow is a mystery, today is a gift of God, which is why we call it the present."

"Hang in there. It is astonishing how short a time it can take for very wonderful things to happen."

"Oh, but I was an idiot. Wanting to be whatever magic she waited for, when I had no magic - only darkness or death to give. But it seemed in that one instant, when she turned to discover what was behind her, that I could have brought happiness to at least one mortal. Me and my dreams of goodness. I had always been a fool for them."

"Hope can be imagined as a domino effect, a chain reaction, each increment making the next increase more feasible... There are moments of fear and doubt that can deflate it."

"Great hopes make great men."