Mary Renault Quotes

Dear Pope, send me some hope or a rope.

The people of our city are holding on by a thread. Time has run out. Can we survive another night? And who can we depend on? Only God knows.

I got to that desperate place where nobody could help me but God.

I learned to pray out of desperation. For most of us, this is how the adventure usually begins. When we finally get serious about prayer, the trigger is usually desperation, not duty.... We don't pray because we ought, we pray because we are without any other recourse.

Only a god can save us.

It's exactly at these moments, when all hope has vanished, that prayer has dominion.

Dear Jesus, do something.

When things get bad enough, your only resort is to lie in bed and start praying.

We do not pray at all until we are at our wits' end.

As long as there is poverty there will be gods.

I don't know much, but I understand how entirely doomed I am without God.

I do believe in the power of prayer.

A religious man is a person who holds God and man in one thought at one time, at all times, who suffers harm done to others, whose greatest passion is compassion, whose greatest strength is love and defiance of despair.

People don't believe or understand that a community can lose hope. You can have a whole community where hopelessness is the norm, where folks don't have faith that things will get better because history and circumstances have proven over 30, 40, or 50 years that things don't get better.

All hope abandon, ye who enter here!

I've heard people say that God is the gift of desperation, and there's a lot to be said for having really reached a bottom where you've run out of any more good ideas or plans for everybody else's behavior; or how to save and fix and rescue; or just get out of a huge mess, possibly of your own creation.

I'm trying to throw a big broad net to try to get people interested in God and believe that He's for them and has a purpose.

I see so many people. They just seem to be hopeless. Being a Christian and being a pastor, the ultimate hope is in Jesus.

Religion. A daughter of Hope and Fear, explaining to Ignorance the nature of the Unknowable.

I was so low that I wanted to exit. And I took a bunch of pills, and they were sleeping pills. And at least they would put me to sleep, and maybe I wouldn't wake up, and that was fine.

The atheist has no hope.

I hope I never get so old I get religious.

Nearly every tribe and nearly every human being has gods. Belief in gods is all over the place. It's universal. It squeaks and squoozes from every pore of humanity.

It is only for the sake of those without hope that hope is given to us.

Are we not all desperate one way or another?