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• Two criminals were crucified with Christ. One was saved; do not despair. One was not; do not presume.

  Saint Augustine

  Two, Despair, Criminals

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• He did not say: You will not be assailed, you will not be belabored, you will not be disquieted, but he did said: You will not be overcome.

  Julian of Norwich

  Overcoming, Said

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• In this deed is my hope, not in the mere timeless fact that God is love. I am saved not by the beautiful Trinitarian life of God but by the gory death of God. I am saved not by the touching of the three Persons in Heaven but by the touching of this love on the Cross to my life.

  Peter Kreeft

  Beautiful, Heaven, Touching

  Peter Kreeft (2009). “The God Who Loves You: Love Divine, All Loves Excelling”, p.144, Ignatius Press

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• Sinful man really hopes when he no longer has anything of his own.

  Johann Baptist Metz

  Men

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• Certainly, the church is not primarily a moral institution, but the bearer of a hope.

  Johann Baptist Metz

  Church, Moral, Institutions

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• There are plenty of reasons for hope. There need be no war with Russia, and those who would fight her now, on the theory that we had better do it and get it over with, are lightheaded promoters of world destruction.

  Harold W. Dodds

  War, Fighting, Russia

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• Believing in things you cannot see Even with my trembling arms I want to protect someone dear to me The place my thought that proggressed up to now struggle on to To see hopes Even in a black, confined world

  Kanon Wakeshima

  Believe, Struggle, Black

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• "You need hedges.""Hedges," I said, bemused. "Yes, Edgar." He looked surprised and a little disappointed, as if I had failed to understand a very simple concept. "Hedges against the night."

  Stephen King

  Simple, Night, Needs

  Stephen King (2008). “Duma Key: A Novel”, p.22, Simon and Schuster

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• I revear all the gods but those that delight in cruelty. If Ra's light is kindly in your eyes than may his light shine on us all.

  Elizabeth Moon

  Eye, Shine On, Light

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• What is the hope that can give meaning to life? Without some form of hope, the Holy Father argues that life becomes tedious and potentially burdersome, even if it is marked by material influence and technical progress. The person without hope finds himself in an existential difficulty: For what enduring purpose am I clinging to this life that I love and do not want to lose?

  Raymond J. de Souza

  Father, Giving, Progress

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• The article goes on later to say, "Hope is not then something for the future alone, a sort of wishful thinking aout what might be; it offers meaning for us today. Christian hope is founded on certain faith that life is not a meaningless riddle, but a mystery progressively revealed and finding the fulfillment in the redemption won by Jesus Christ and offered to all peoples."

  Raymond J. de Souza

  Christian, Jesus, Thinking

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• In restating this basic Christian doctrine, Benedict argues that it is not only for Christians alone. Others may not share the Christian faith in God, but the Christian proclamation that hope comes from within the person- in the realm of faith and conscience - is for them too. It offers an important protection against stifling and occasionally brutal social systems built on false hopes that come from outside the person, founded on political idealogies, economic models and social theories.

  Raymond J. de Souza

  Christian, Economic Models, Political

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• I'm the beacon of hope, and I have mental powers you never dreamed of. Now be quiet.

  David Klass

  Quiet, Beacons, Mental Power

  David Klass (2008). “Firestorm: The Caretaker Trilogy:”, p.381, Macmillan

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• We can drop the fundamental hope that there is a better "me" who one day will emerge. We can't just jump over ourselves as if we were not there.

  Pema Chodron

  One Day, Fundamentals, Better Me

  Pema Chodron (2000). “When Things Fall Apart: Heart Advice for Difficult Times”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• All hope is prayer; who calls it hope no more, Sends prayer footsore forth over weary wastes, While he who calls it prayer, gives wings to hope.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Prayer, Wings, Giving

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.558, Delphi Classics

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• No joy for which thy hungering heart has panted, No hope it cherishes through waiting years, But if thou dost deserve it, shall be granted For with each passionate wish the blessing nears. Tune up the fine, strong instrument of thy being To chord with thy dear hope, and do not tire. When both in key and rhythm are agreeing, Lo! thou shalt kiss the lips of thy desire. The thing thou cravest so waits in the distance, Wrapt in the silences, unseen and dumb: Essential to thy soul and thy existence-- Live worthy of it--call, and it shall come.

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox

  Strong, Distance, Heart

  Ella Wheeler Wilcox (2016). “Complete Poetical Works of Ella Wheeler Wilcox (Delphi Classics)”, p.573, Delphi Classics

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• One hope no sooner dies in us but another rises up in its stead. We are apt to fancy that we shall be happy and satisfied if we possess ourselves of such and such particular enjoyments; but either by reason of their emptiness, or the natural inquietude of the mind, we have no sooner gained one point, but we extend our hopes to another. We still find new inviting scenes and landscapes lying behind those which at a distance terminated our view.

  Joseph Addison

  Distance, Lying, Views

  Joseph Addison, Richard Hurd (1811). “The Works: In Six Volumes”, p.67

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• Hope is an explorer who surveys the country ahead. That is why we know so much about the Hereafter and so little about the Heretofore.

  Ambrose Bierce

  Country, Littles, Surveys

  Ambrose Bierce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of Ambrose Bierce (Illustrated)”, p.1211, Delphi Classics

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• And then the spirit brings hope, hope in the strictest Christian sense, hope which is hoping against hope. For an immediate hope exists in every person; it may be more powerfully alive in one person than in another; but in death every hope of this kind dies and turns into hopelessness. Into this night of hopelessness (it is death that we are describing) comes the life-giving spirit and brings hope, the hope of eternity. It is against hope, for there was no longer any hope for that merely natural hope; this hope is therefore a hope contrary to hope.

  Soren Kierkegaard

  Christian, Night, Giving

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• We are promised abundance of all good things--yet we are rich only in hunger and thirst. What would become of us if we did not take our stand on hope, and if our heart did not hasten beyond this world!

  John Calvin

  Heart, World, Hunger And Thirst

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• The deepest dark reveals the starriest hope.

  Gerald Massey

  Dark

  Gerald Massey (1855). “The Ballad of Babe Christabel: With Other Lyrical Poems”, p.30

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• Once you lost all hope, time began to go faster and the senseless days deadened your soul.

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon

  Soul, Lost, Faster

  Carlos Ruiz Zafon (2012). “The Prisoner of Heaven”, p.78, Hachette UK

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• Guido the plumber and Michelangelo obtained their marble from the same quarry, but what each saw in the marble made the difference between a nobleman's sink and a brilliant sculpture.

  Rob Kall

  Differences, Choices, Vision

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• Hope was a dangerous emotion that more often than not led men into foolishness and peril, made them risk their lives and lose their wives and part with fortunes that they never recovered.

  Bentley Little

  Men, Wife, Risk

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• Help, then, is the ballast that keeps us steady, that recognizes where along the path are the dangers and pitfalls that can throw us off; hope tempers fear so we can recognize dangers and then bypass or endure them.

  Jerome Groopman

  Pitfalls, Path, Bypass

  Jerome Groopman (2005). “The Anatomy of Hope: How People Prevail in the Face of Illness”, Random House Trade Paperbacks

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