Enduring Hope Quotes

My mother is a very strong woman. We were seven kids; five of them passed away. My elder brother and I are alive. My mother lost five kids, her husband, her parents and siblings. But she is so strong, she is living for the people who are alive.

We are a resilient country. We've been through a Civil War; we've been through two World Wars. We've been through a Great Depression; we even made it through Jimmy Carter! We will make it through the Obama years!

In Lebanon, it's never over for anyone. You cannot write off anyone or anything in this country.

To find relief in what has been, we must make ourselves eternal.

It's never paid to bet against America. We come through things, but its not always a smooth ride.

Despite all the troubles of our world, in my heart I have never given up on the love in which I was brought up or on man's hope in love. In life, just as on the artist's palette, there is but one single colour that gives meaning to life and art–the colour of love

When love leaves the world, all hearts are still. Tell them of my love and tell them of my pain and tell them of my hope, which still lives. For this is all I have and all I am and all I ask.

I suspect the most we can hope for, and it's no small hope, is that we never give up, that we never stop giving ourselves permission to try to love and receive love.

Faith is what gets you started. Hope is what keeps you going. Love is what brings you to the end.

There is never a reason to lose hope. Jesus says: “I am with you until the end of the world.

Defeat may serve as well as victory to shake the soul and let the glory out.

And when the night is cloudy There is still a light that shines on me Shine on until tomorrow, let it Be...

In the unlikely story that is America, there has never been anything false about hope.

We always have hope. Hope dies last.

Time that weakens all things else has but strengthened the impregnable position of the believer's faith and hope and confidence. And as, year by year, the tree adds another ring to its circumference, every age has added the testimony of its events to this great truth. "The grass withereth, and the flower fadeth, but the word of the Lord shall endure forever.

My own faith was nurtured by my grandmother and her clinging deeply to her faith when she was dying a painful and slow death from cancer.

Faith will become vision, hope will become possession, but the love of Jesus Christ that is stronger than death endures forever. In the end, it is the only thing you can hang onto.

When you are submitted and committed to the Lord, you will look forward to Jesus coming back, and not even an earthquake or Hurricane Irene will be able to shake you from the love of Christ.

'The Little Rascals' was set against the background of the Great Depression: the characters were living in poverty. It's just that it wasn't focused on it. It was focused on what makes childhood universal. We're all laughing at kids because we see ourselves in them; we remember our childhood.

As often as you fail, get up and try again. God will never let you down, so long as you don't let Him down, and so long as you make the effort.

Sometimes people have to go through hard times just to get to a happy place.

What I felt then I feel now: the inexorable, unchanging interior hum of doubt and hope.

Hope can be bruised and battered. It can be forced underground and even rendered unconscious, but hope cannot be killed.