hope

"Chapters - Life has many different chapters for us. One bad chapter doesn’t mean the end of the book."

"I think at the heart of so much restlessness of the day is a spiritual vacuum. There is a yearning for meaningful lives, a yearning for values we can commonly embrace. I hear an almost inaudible but pervasive discontent with the price we pay for our current materialism. And I hear a fluttering of hope that there might be more to life than bread and circuses."

"Growing up in Canada, most kids from Canada dream of playing in the NHL, and they also hope one day to be on a Stanley Cup team. That was a big goal."

"She felt the depth of her losses before they were realized, and she wondered, Is there still hope? Did she even dare hold on to such a tenuous thing as hope?"

"Outside of the cross of Jesus Christ, there is no hope in this world. That cross and resurrection at the core of the Gospel is the only hope for humanity. Wherever you go, ask God for wisdom on how to get that Gospel in, even in the toughest situations of life."

"You'll stop hurting when you stop hoping."

"I have tried to keep on with my striving because this is the only hope I have of ever achieving anything worthwhile and lasting."

"Just as a mother finds pleasure in taking her little child on her lap, there to feed and caress him, in like manner our loving God shows His fondness for His beloved souls who have given themselves entirely to Him and have placed all their hope in His goodness."

"Our only hope is to control the vote."

"But all I could think of was how when nothing made sense and hadn't for ages, you just have to grab onto anything you feel sure of."

"Hope is the companion of power, and mother of success; for who so hopes strongly has within him the gift of miracles."

"Ignorance killed the cat; curiosity was framed!"

"Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way."

"A mouth of no distinction but well practiced, before I entered my teens, in irony. For what is irony but the repository of hurt? And what is hurt but the repository of hope?"

"I suppose she's right. It's like a metaphor for life: No one wants an ornery old goat, but we can't resist opening the door ayway. We can't keep from hoping."

"We promise according to our hopes and perform according to our fears."

"I challenge you to make your life the masterpiece you want to paint, the novel you want to read, the day you want to wake to."

"...the best Evil Plan offers something much more for people--a chance to buy into an idea that matters, and share it with people who matter to them."

"A very small degree of hope is sufficient to cause the birth of love"

"A man must love a thing very much if he not only practices it without any hope of fame and money, but even... without any hope of doing it well."