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Life with Christ is an endless hope, without Him a hopless end.

Anonymous

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A religious Hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings, but makes her rejoice in them.

Joseph Addison

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When you say that a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

Charles L. Allen

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A sublime hope cheers ever the faithful heart, that elsewhere, in other regions of the universal powers, souls are now acting, enduring and daring, which can love us, and which we can love.

Ralph Waldo Emerson.

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Hope is the last thing that dies in a man, and although it be exceedingly deceitful, yet it is of good use to us, that while we are traveling through life it conducts us in an easier and more pleasant way to our journey’s end.

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No husbandman would sow one grain of corn if he hoped not it would grow up and become seed; no bachelor would marry a wife if he hope not to have children; no merchant or tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby.

Martin Luther, Table Talk

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Everything that is done in the world is done by hope.

Martin Luther (1483-1546), Table-Talk

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Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace that God gives us to control our fears, not to oust them.

Vincent McNabb, Joy in Believing, I993

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What enthusiasm is to the youth and ambition to the apprentice and peace of mind to the invalid, such is hope to the Christians.

Joseph McSorley, Be of Good Heart, 1922

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If in the hour of death the conscience is at peace, the mind need not be troubled. The future is full of doubt, indeed, but fuller still of hope.

John Lubbock, The Pleasures of Life, 1887

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Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.

Samuel Johnson, June 8, 1762, Letters of

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Hope requires a very careful symbolization. It must not be expressed too fully in the present tense because hope one can touch and handle is not likely to retain its promissory call to a new future. Hope expressed only in the present tense will no doubt be co-opted by the managers of this age

Walter Brueggemann, The Prophetic Imagination, 1978

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Hope . . . is one of the ways in which what is merely future and potential is made vividly present and actual to us. Hope is the positive, as anxiety is the negative, mode of awaiting the future.

Emil Brunner, Eternal Hope, 1954

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If you do not hope, you will not find what is beyond your hopes.

St. Clement of Alexandria, Stromateis, c. 193

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Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.

William Sloane Cofffin, Jr., Once to Every Man, 1977.

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The word which God has written on the brow of every man is Hope.

Victor Hugo (1802-85), Treasure Bits from ed. By Rose

Hope is like the sun, which,as we walk toward it, casts a shadow of our burdens behind us.

Anonymous

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Hope is a thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without words And never stops at all And sweetest in the gale is heard.

Emily Dickinson, Selected Poems and Letters of Emily Dickinson

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Memory and hope constantly incite us to the extensions of the self which play so large a part in our daily life.

Josiah Royce, The problem of Christianity

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The Encyclopedia Britannica devotes many columns to the topic of love, and many more to faith. But hope, poor little hope! she is not even listed!

Karl Menninger, American Journal of Psychiatry,December 1959