Hope and Faith
Hope
- Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. George Iles
- Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don’t give up. Anne Lamott
- Expect to have hope rekindled. Expect your prayers to be answered in wondrous ways. The dry seasons in life do not last. The spring rains will come again. Sarah Ban Breathnach
- No man is beaten until his hope is annihilated, his confidence gone. As long as a man faces life hopefully, confidently, triumphantly, he is not a failure; he is not beaten until he turns his back on life. Orison Swett Marden
- Hope is knowing that people, like kites, are made to be lifted up. Author Unknown
- Hope never abandons you; you abandon it. George Weinberg
- He who has health, has hope. And he who has hope, has everything. Proverb
- Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are. Augustine of Hippo
- Hope is a higher heart frequency, and as you begin to re-connect with your heart, hope is waiting to show you new possibilities and arrest the downward spiral of grief and loneliness. Listening to the still small voice in your heart will make hope into a reality. Sara Paddison
- Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.
Author Unknown - Hope is the dream of a soul awake. French Proverb
- Hope is the power that gives us the power to step out and try.
Author Unknown - Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible and achieves the impossible. Anonymous
- If it were not for hopes, the heart would break. Thomas Fuller
- If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps life moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all. And so today I still have a dream. Martin Luther King, Jr
- In all things it is better to hope than to despair. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
- Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope. Author Unknown
- We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope. Martin Luther King, Jr
- When you do nothing, you feel overwhelmed and powerless. But when you get involved, you feel the sense of hope and accomplishment that comes from knowing you are working to make things better. Pauline R. Kezer
- Your hopes, dreams and aspirations are legitimate. They are trying to take you airborne, above the clouds, above the storms, if you only let them. William James
- You’ve gotta have hope. Without hope life is meaningless. Without hope life is meaning less and less. Author Unknown
- When the world says, “Give up,”
Hope whispers, “Try it one more time.” Author Unknown
Faith
- Faith is taking the first step even when you don’t see the whole staircase. Martin Luther King, Jr.
- When you walk to the edge of all the light you have and take that first step into the darkness of the unknown, you must believe that one of two things will happen: There will be something solid for you to stand upon, or, you will be taught how to fly. Patrick Overton
- Faith is a process of leaping into the abyss not on the basis of any certainty about “where” we shall land, but rather on the belief that we “shall” land. Carter Heyward
- Faith is to believe what you do not see; the reward of this faith is to see what you believe. Saint Augustine
- As your faith is strengthened you will find that there is no longer the need to have a sense of control, that things will flow as they will, and that you will flow with them, to your great delight and benefit. Emmanuel Teney
- Talk unbelief, and you will have unbelief; but talk faith, and you will have faith. According to the seed sown will be the harvest. Ellen G White
- Be faithful in small things because it is in them that your strength lies. Mother Teresa
- It’s faith in something and enthusiasm for something that makes a life worth living. Oliver Wendell Holmes
- Faith is not something to grasp, it is a state to grow into. Mahatma Gandhi
- Faith is not trying to believe something regardless of the evidence; faith is daring something regardless of the consequences. Sherwood Eddy
- Faith is courage; it is creative while despair is always destructive. David S. Muzzey
- Faith is like electricity. You can’t see it, but you can see the light. Author Unknown
- Every tomorrow has two handles. We can take hold of it with the handle of anxiety or the handle of faith. Henry Ward Beecher
- Be faithful to that which exists nowhere but in yourself – and thus make yourself indispensable. Andre Gide
- Only the person who has faith in himself is able to be faithful to others. Erich Fromm
- Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence. Helen Keller
- Faith means living with uncertainty – feeling your way through life, letting your heart guide you like a lantern in the dark. Dan Millman
- Fear can keep us up all night long, but faith makes one fine pillow. Philip Gulley
- Fear clogs; Faith liberates. Elbert Hubbard
- If you think you can win, you can win. Faith is necessary to victory. William Hazlitt
- Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light. Helen Keller
- Faith is the art of holding on to things your reason has once accepted in spite of your changing moods. C.S. Lewis

