H Quotes
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“Hope is not some thin thing that is subject to the winds of fate, but it is crafted hard by the hands of God.”
“Hope is not some thin thing that is subject to the winds of fate. Rather, it is something crafted hard by the hands of God.”
“Hope is not something that you conjure up in your own mind. Hope is an inspiration you get from the people you are around. Hope has to be shown and seen. Hope is something that is developed, that’s learned. You must see the opportunity for hope.”
“Hope is not something you can just place in your back pocket or put your fingers around – it’s the belief in a world that has yet to exist.”
“Hope is not strategy. Hope fits with vision, but we must have a strategy and a process to make our vision become a reality.”
“Hope is not the opposite of despair. It is the decision to build anyway.”
“Hope is not weakness. It's oxygen, a crack in the window, the pale slash of moonlight across a dusty room.”
Source: This Time It's Real
“Hope is not what we find in evidence, it's what we become in action.”
Source: Getting a Grip 2: Clarity, Creativity and Courage for the World We Really Want
“Hope is not wishful thinking. It's not a temperament we're born with. It is a stance toward life that we can choose...not not. The real question for me, though, is whether m hope is effective, whether it produces or is just where I hide to ease my own pain.”
“Hope is nothing but a deceitful flatterer accepted by reason only because it is often in need of palliatives.”
Source: The Memoirs of Jacques Casanova de Seingalt: Complete
“Hope is often bitter, but it drives us, and we cling.”
Source: Cast in Chaos
“Hope is often framed as optimism, but I like to think of it more as endurance. To hope is to believe that the future might look different from how things look right now. Sometimes that hope looks a lot like a mix of faith and waiting. Each day you live life after loss is another opportunity to exercise your muscle of hope.”
Source: Your Grief, Your Way: A Year of Practical Guidance and Comfort After Loss
“Hope is one leg of a three-legged stool, together with faith and charity. These three stabilize our lives regardless of the rough or uneven surfaces we might encounter at the time... Hope in our Heavenly Father's merciful plan of happiness leads to peace, mercy, rejoicing, and gladness. The hope of salvation is like a protective helmet; it is the foundation of our faith and an anchor to our souls.”
“Hope is one of our central emotions, but we are often at a loss when asked to define it. Many of us confuse hope with optimism, a prevailing attitude that "things turn out for the best." But hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "Think Positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike optimism, is rooted in unalloyed reality. Although there is no uniform definition of hope, I found on that seemed to capture what my patients had taught me. Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye- a path to a better future. Hope acknowledges the significant obstacles and deep pitfalls along that path. True hope has no room for delusion.”
Source: The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness
“Hope is one of the Theological virtues. This means that a continual looking forward to the eternal world is not (as some modern people think) a form of escapism or wishful thinking, but one of the things a Christian is meant to do. It does not mean that we are to leave the present world as it is. If you read history you will find that the Christians who did most for the present world were just those who thought most of the next.”
Source: Joyful Christian
“Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.”
“Hope is optimism plus a belief there is a path out of your adversity.”
“Hope is oxygen to the soul, and God is the oxygen of hope.”
“Hope is part of the human condition and trans people's hope is our proof that we are fully human. We are not an 'issue' to be debated and derided. We are symbols of hope for many non-trans people, too, who see in out lives the possibility of living more fully and freely. That is why some people hate us: they are frightened by the gleaming opulence of our freedom. Our existences enriches this world.”
Source: The Transgender Issue: An Argument for Justice
“Hope is passion for what is possible.”
“Hope is patience with the lamp lit.”
“Hope is possible, when you decide to believe that what you are hoping for is possible.”
“Hope is practiced through the virtue of patience, which continues to do good even in the face of apparent failure, and through the virtue of humility, which accepts God's mystery and trusts him even at times of darkness.”
“Hope is putting Faith "on the line" and expecting results!
(from Mission Possible - Spiritual Covering)”
Source: Mission Possible: Spiritual Covering
“Hope is putting faith to work when doubting would be easier”
“Hope is really a thought.”
Source: Daring Greatly: How the Courage to Be Vulnerable Transforms the Way We Live, Love, Parent, and Lead
“Hope is rooted in the trustworthiness of God.”
“Hope is slowly extinguished and quickly revived.”
“Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.”
“Hope is something God gives us. Hope is...Hope is a bright light on a dark night. If your hope is guiding you into this shore, then this is where you should drop your anchor.”
Source: The Night Mark
“Hope is something really tough and tenacious you have to give up. It’s an addiction to break.”
Source: Damned
“Hope is something that can never be taken from you unless you allow someone to take it. If you never lose hope, you will never truly be poor.”
Source: The Marvelous Journey Home
“Hope is something that is built from small parts. Perceived actions. Observed effects. Imperfect understanding. Uncertain knowledge. Acknowledged fears. The things each of us projects and says and does in the physical world. Hope then is made up of tiny bits and pieces of us. All of us, together.”
“Hope is something that is demanded of us; it is not, then, a mere reasoned calculation of our chances. Nor is it merely the bubbling up of a sanguine temperament; if it is demanded of us, it lies not in the temperament but in the will... Hoping for what? For delivereance from persecution, for immunity from plague, pestilence, and famine...? No, for the grace of persevering in his Christian profession, and for the consequent achievement of a happy immortality. Strictly speaking, then, the highest exercise of hope, supernaturally speaking, is to hope for perseverance and for Heaven when it looks, when it feels, as if you were going to lose both one and the other.”
“Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook.”
“Hope is such a beautiful word, but it often seems very fragile. Life is still being needlessly hurt and destroyed.”
“Hope is such a powerful thing. We all have hope for different things, but I think sometimes we need to share our hope with other people. We're sometimes in our own issues, and it isolates us, but when we come together and encourage each other and give a little bit of hope, it can, like it says in the song, go a long way.”
“Hope is such a tenuous quality. To feel it and then to be denied what one most longs for ... Better, surely, not to hope at all, than to open the heart to a hope that is impossible.”
Source: Heart's Blood
“Hope is such an important component to moving forward and getting past the difficult times.”
“Hope is sure and steadfast trust.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Hope is sweet. Hope is illumining. Hope is fulfilling. Hope can be everlasting. Therefore, do not give up hope, Even in the sunset of your life.”
“Hope is tenacious. It goes on living and working when science has dealt it what should be its deathblow.”
Source: The Complete Stories of Paul Laurence Dunbar
“Hope is the adrenalin of the soul.”
“Hope is the anchor for any storm.”
“Hope is the anchor of the soul; keep it strong, and it will keep you steady.”
Source: Journey of Soul - Karma
“Hope is the assurance of positive expectations.”
Source: Think Great: Be Great!
“Hope is the beacon in the dark night. Its light shines through the storm of your soul, and when you allow God to anchor your hope, you will realize He’s greater than any situation you will ever encounter.”
“Hope is the bedrock of this nation. The belief that our destiny will not be written for us, but by us, by all those men and women who are not content to settle for the world as it is, who have the courage to remake the world as it should be.”
“Hope is the belief in the probability of the possible rather than the necessity of the probable.”
“Hope is the belief we might get it done, and faith is the knowledge we will get it done.”