Pat Murphy Quotes

Believe in miracles. And live in a way that might necessitate one.

If you can delude yourself by believing that there is some kind of Santa Claus out there who is going to bail you out in the end, then it will help you get through. Even if you are proven wrong in the end, you would have had a better life than a non-believer.

My hopes are not always realized, but I always hope.

Hope is the only good that is common to all men; those who have nothing else possess hope still.

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

You only cry for help if you believe there is help to cry for.

Hope is like compassion to me. It's like possibility and living in possibility.

Where there's life, there's hope.

Hope is much more than wishful thinking. Hope is a way of moving through the world.

I had let want in, opened the door ever so slightly. But want without the belief you can get what you want is pointless. You have to hope, so I let that in too. You have to. To want things and go for them and believe, even in impossible situations...Hope was what you had when you had nothing else. Hope was the perfect shiny top on the Christmas tree, the glowing halo of every wish, the endless beacon of a lighthouse bringing tormented ships home at last.

My advice to you is never stop believing.

Maybe we are a little crazy. After all, we believe in things we don't see. The Scriptures say that faith is "being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see" (Heb. 11:1). We believe poverty can end even though it is all around us. We believe in peace even though we hear only rumours of wars. And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.

We have only to believe. And the more threatening and irreducible reality appears, the more firmly and desperately we must believe. Then, little by little, we shall see the universal horror unbend, and then smile upon us, and then take us in its more than human arms.

We live by hope. We do not ever get all we want when we want it. But we have to believe that someday, somehow, some way, it will be better and that we can make it so.

God works where there's an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it's an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we're facing.

It's amazing to think how powerful of a force optimism and hope can be. It's the thing that saves me. I believed that I lived in the greatest country in the world. I still believe that, and consequently, I believed that I had a chance, even though things around me were absolutely crazy and difficult.

I have this weird optimism that when things are not good - like, really, genuinely not good - that we shall persevere.

I'm not always optimistic, but I am hopeful.

Hope is universal.

Dreams do come true, no matter what people say.

I've always been optimistic - I always expect the sun to come out.

I'm painfully a realist but ruthlessly an optimist. I think maybe it's because of my faith - I've always got the hope that there is something out there to make it all worthwhile.

We cannot give up hope. It's our most important gift.

Having faith and trust that one day things will be greater, it sometimes is the one thing you need to stay positive in a negative situation.