Quotes on Hope And Faith

It is difficult to say what is impossible, for the dream of yesterday is the hope of today and the reality of tomorrow.

Faith is the bird that feels the light when the dawn is still dark.

Hope in God. If you have good hope and faith in Him, you shall be delivered from your enemies.

For the Deist ... prayer is calling across a void to a distant deity. This lofty figure may or may not be listening. He, or it, may or may not be inclined, or even able, to do very much about us and our world, even if he (or it) wanted to ... all you can do is send off a message, like a marooned sailor scribbling a note and putting it in a bottle, on the off-chance that someone out there might pick it up. That kind of prayer takes a good deal of faith and hope. But it isn't Christian prayer.

Hope is born of participation in hopeful solutions.

The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.

Civilization rests on a set of promises; if the promises are broken too often, the civilization dies, no matter how rich it may be, or how mechanically clever. Hope and faith depend on the promises; if hope and faith go, everything goes.

We live in the hope and faith that, by the advance of molecular physics, we shall by-and-by be able to see our way as clearly from the constituents of water to the properties of water, as we are now able to deduce the operations of a watch from the form of its parts and the manner in which they are put together.

Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.

Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

There is nothing so cruel in this world as the desolation of having nothing to hope for.

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.