Hope

"And indeed it could be said that once the faintest stirring of hope became possible, the dominion of plague was ended."

"What we have at the moment isn't as the old liturgies used to say, 'the sure and certain hope of the resurrection of the dead,' but a vague and fuzzy optimism that somehow things may work out in the end."

"How could I live above the water or breathe under it. How could I swim in darkness consumed in an ocean of you? Falling or flying towards you, losing or finding myself in you and beauty was never the word to catch all that you are. For now I know the means of the infinite and it all starts and ends with you."

"You are only a prisoner when you surrender."

"HELP!”I race to the square, crossing it, looking all around, listening out-.. It’s empty. Viola’s breathing heavy in my arms . And Haven is empty. I reach the middle of the square. I don’t see nor hear a soul. I spin around again.“HELP!” I cry. But there’s no one. Haven’s completely empty. There ain’t hope here after all."

"I need you because I know I deserve you but let me fall in love with you one last time before I let go. So I can remember the beautiful imperfection that rattled my bones."

"I think hope is the worst thing in the world. I really do. It makes a fool of you while it lasts. And then when it's gone, it's like there's nothing left of you at all . . . except what you can't be rid of."

"...left to ourselves we lapse into a kind of collusion with entrophy, acquiescing in the general belief that things may be getting worse but that there's nothing much we can do about them. And we are wrong. Our task in the present...is to live as resurrection people in between Easter and the final day, with our Christian life, corporate and individual, in both worship and mission, as a sign of the first and a foretaste of the second."

"Summertime. It was a song. It was a season. I wondered if that season would ever live inside of me."

"The greatest joys in life are found not only in what we do and feel, but also in our quiet hopes and labors for others."

"IT IS BY CHOICE AND NOT BY CHANCES THAT WE CHANGE OUR CIRCUMSTANCES."

"I know too well how dangerous hope can be, how it grows and sometimes dies, taking its host with it. It's more powerful than anything Dr. Fibs keeps in his labs, more precious than all the secrets inside Sublevel Two."

"Hope will lie to you, but lust is what it is; it never lies."

"But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness."

"Above all shadows rides the Sunand Stars for ever dwell:I will not say the Day is done,nor bid the Stars farewell."

"Your mother sets you up blind dates? With guys like that" The corners of his mouth twitched. "She doesn't like you very much, does she?"

"No one needed to say it, but the room overflowed with that sort of blessing. The combination of loss and abundance. The abundance that has no guilt. The loss that has no fix. The simple tiredness that is not weary. The hope not built on blindness."

"He never had any real hope in the affair from the beginning;but being a cheerful hobbit he had not needed hope,as long as despair could be postponed."

"But we believe – nay, Lord we only hope,That one day we shall thank thee perfectly For pain and hope and all that led or drove Us back into the bosom of thy love."

"Never Give up! Where theres life theres hope!..."