Hope - christiansquoting.org.uk

Every morning is the dawn of a new error.

False hope is nicer than no hope at all.

No matter how difficult life can be the most important thing is to live it with hope

Of all the ills that men endure, hope is the only cheap and universal cure.

Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air... but only for one second without hope.

I know how men in exile feed on dreams. Aeschylus

If they can make penicillin out of moldy bread, they can sure make something out of you. -- Muhammad Ali

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. --Charles L. Allen

Hope is hearing the melody of the future. Faith is to dance to it now. Ruben Alves

The most hopeful people in the world are the young and the drunk. The first because they have little experience of failure, and the second because they have succeeded in drowning theirs. Thomas Aquinas

While it is wise to accept what we cannot change about ourselves, it is also good to remember that we are never too old to replace discouragement with bit and pieces of confidence and hope. -Elaine N. Aron _The Highly Sensitive Person: How to Thrive When the World Overwhelms You_

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) "An Anthropologist at Work: Writings of Ruth Benedict," by Margaret Mead, 1959

I am still confident of this: I will see the goodness of the LORD in the land of the living.
Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD. Ps. 27:13 -14.

For but a moment in his wrath;
life in his love doth stay:
weeping may lodge with us a night
but joye at break of day."
Psalm 30:5 (Bay Psalm Book)

For but a moment lasts his wrath;
life in his favour lies:
Weeping may for a night endure,
at morn doth joy arise."
Psalm 30:5 (Scottish Psalter)

Though you have made me see troubles, many and bitter, you will restore my life again; from the depths of the earth you will again bring me up. -- Ps. 71:20

Though he slay me, yet will I hope in him-- Job 13:15

Expect more! - William D Blake

He who despairs over an event is a coward, but he who holds hopes for the human condition is a fool.- Albert Camus

Expect great thing from God. Attempt great things for God. W Carey

Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless. --Gilbert Keith Chesterton (1874-1936)

For there is good news yet to hear and fine things to be seen,
Before we go to Paradise by way of Kensal Green.
G.K. Chesterton The Rolling English Road

While there's life, there's hope.--Marcus Tullius Cicero (106-43 BC), _Ad Atticum_

And the sea shall grant all men new hope, as sleep brings dreams of home. - Christopher Columbus, 1451 - 1506

There was never a night that had no morn. Dinah Mulock Craik (1826-1887) "The Golden Gate," "Mulock's Poems, New and Old," 1888.

Totally without hope one cannot live. To live without hope is to cease to live. Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante's hell is the inscription: "Leave behind all hope, you who enter here." --Fedor Dostoevski (1821-1881)

They can conquer who believe they can-- John Dryden. Book V of Virgil's Aeneid.

It is never to late to be what you might have been. --George Eliot

All earthly delights are sweeter in expectation than in enjoyment; all spiritual pleasures, more in fruition than in expectation. Owen Feltham

Hope... like the gleaming taper's light,
adorns and cheers our way;
And still, as darker grows the night,
Emits a brighter ray.
Oliver Goldsmith

Hope is the best possession. None are completely wretched but those who are without hope, and few are reduced so low as that.--William Hazlitt (1778-1830) _Characteristics_ [1823]

Hope is the poor man's bread-- George Herbert

He that lives in hope danceth without musick. George Herbert

We must always have old memories and young hopes.~Arsène Houssaye

The word which God has written on the brow of every man is hope. VICTOR HUGO

To-morrow is an old deceiver, and his cheat never grows stale.-- Samuel Johnson, letter to Hester Thrale, May 24 1773

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness, of captivity, would, without this comfort, be insupportable.--Samuel Johnson (1709-1784)_The Rambler_ [1750-1752], #67

The pleasure of expecting enjoyment is often greater than that of obtaining it, and the completion of almost every wish is found a disappointment. - Samuel Johnson: Rambler #71

We love to expect, and when expectation is either disappointed or gratified, we want to be again expecting.
Samuel Johnson

Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavour. Samuel Johnson

Happy are they ... who shall learn ... not to despair, but shall remember, that though the day is past, and their strength is wasted, there yet remains one effort to be made; that reformation is never hopeless, nor sincere endeavours ever unassisted; that the wanderer may at length return after all his errours, and that he who implores strength and courage from above shall find danger and difficulty give way before him. - Samuel Johnson: Rambler #65

Dependence of the soul upon the seasons, those temporary and periodical ebbs and flows of intellect, may, I suppose, be justly derided as the fumes of vain imagination. ... While this notion has possession of the head, it produces the inability which it supposes. Our powers owe much of their energy to our hopes. When success is attainable, diligence is enforced; but when it is admitted that the faculties are suppressed by a cross wind or a cloudy sky the day is given up without resistance; for who can contend with the course of Nature?- Samuel Johnson: Milton (Lives of the Poets)

Hope is such a bait, it covers any hook. --Ben Jonson (1572-1637) In "Wisdom of the Ages at Your Fingertips," MCR software, 1995.

The future is as bright as the promises of God.
Adoniram Judson, pioneer missionary to Burma who faced imprisonment and many other trials .

New mercies, each returning day,
Hover around us while we pray;
New perils past, new sins forgiven,
New thoughts of God, new hopes of heaven.
John Keble.

The sins against hope are despair, as anticipated failure, and presumption, as anticipated fulfilment. In both these cases man seeks to break out of his pilgrim existence and have his life otherwise than from the hand of God. FERDINAND KERSTIENS

How disappointment tracks the steps of hope.Letitia Landon (1802-1838)

Always too eager for the future, we
Pick up bad habits of expectancy.
Something is always approaching; every day
Till then we say,
Watching from a bluff the tiny, clear
Sparkling armada of promises draw near.
How slow they are! And how much time they waste,
Refusing to make haste!

Yet still they leave us holding wretched stalks
Of disappointment, for, though nothing balks
Each big approach, leaning with brass work prinked,
Each rope distinct,

Flagged, and the figurehead with golden tits
Arching our way, it never anchors; it's
No sooner present than it turns to past.
Right to the last

We think each one will heave to and unload
All good into our lives, all we are owed
For waiting so devoutly and so long.
But we are wrong:

Only one ship is seeking us, a black-
Sailed unfamiliar, towing at her back
A huge and birdless silence. In her wake
No waters breed or break.
Philip Larkin, Next Please

Should a single disappointed hope make us so hostile towards the world?-Lessing

Helplessness induces hopelessness, and history attests that loss of hope and not loss of lives is what decides the issue of war. B. H. Liddell Hart

If you don't go far enough back in memory or far enough ahead in hope,your future will be impoverished.
Art Linkletter (1912-____) From an internet collection of quotations

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
Orison Swett Marden

However hard the road, however difficult today, tomorrow things will be better. Tomorrow may not be better, but we must believe that it will be.Benjamin E. Mays (1895-1984) In "My Soul Looks Back, 'Less I Forget," by Dorothy Winbush Riley, 1995.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.
Ruth Benedict (1887-1948) "An Anthropologist at Work: Writings of Ruth Benedict," by Margaret Mead, 1959

Tomorrow to fresh woods, and pastures new. --John Milton

Tis past&emdash;the dreadful stormy night
Is gone, with all its fears!
And now I see returning light,
The Lord, my Sun, appears.
John Newton (Olney Hymns 3:21, stanza 1)

Nothing that is worth anything can be achieved in a lifetime; therefore we must be saved by hope.Reinhold Niebuhr (1892-1971) Gilbert, in "The Critic as Artist," pt. 1; in "Intentions," 1891.

The real winners in life are the people who look at every situation with an expectation that they can make it work or make it better. Barbara Pelcher

Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. -- Pliny the Elder (23-79 A.D.)

Blessed is he who expects nothing, for he shall never be disappointed.--Alexander Pope (1688-1744) Letter to Gay, Oct. 6, 1727.

Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always to be blest.
The soul, uneasy and confined from home,
Rests and expatiates in a life to come.
Alexander Pope. 1688-1744. Essay on Man. Epistle i. Line 95.

It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope. Jean Paul Richter

I rejoice in the hope of that glory to be revealed, for it is no uncertain glory that we look for. Our hope is not hung upon such an untwisted thread as, "I imagine so," or "It is likely," but the cable, the strong tow of our fastened anchor, is the oath and promise of Him who is eternal verity. Our salvation is fastened with God's own hand, and with Christ's own strength, to the strong stake of God's unchangeable nature. Samuel Rutherford, Letter to William Gordon

Linus: I guess it's wrong always to be worrying about tomorrow. Maybe we should think only about today.
Charlie Brown: No, that's giving up. I'm still hoping that yesterday will get better.-- C Schulz, Peanuts

Hope is like the sun, which, as we journey toward it, casts the shadow of our burden behind us.--Samuel Smiles (1812-1904)

It is only hope which is real, and reality is a bitterness and a deceit. ---William M. Thackeray, _Rebecca_

One day we will meet beside the river and our Lord will dry every tear. For now, we must live in the joy of that promise and recall that for every generation Life is hard, but God is faithful. -- Bodie Thoene

Only he who has seen better days and lives to see better days again knows their full value. Mark Twain

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes in to us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and puts itself into our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday. -John Wayne