I'm actually not a big fan of the word hope. I think it's a depressing word. I don't want to hope - I want to know. Like I don't hope there's a God, I know there's a God.

The rich are always going to say that, you know, just give us more money and we'll go out and spend more and then it will all trickle down to the rest of you. But that has not worked the last 10...

The Christian experiences and lives a paradox. He possesses joy in sorrow, fulfillment in exile, light in darkness, peace in turmoil, consolation in dryness, contentment in pain and hope in...

That is why we climb. We climb to reach safety. We climb to reach hope.

Every parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.

Send these the homeless tempest toss'd to me. I lift my lamp beside the golden door.

Hope that star of life's tremulous ocean.

Though you may feel that you cannot improve the world, you can always improve yourself. In doing so, the world becomes a better place.

There was a smart, sunny girl out there right now somewhere, a Ray on a trajectory that would cross his path, a girl who made sense with him. I was just as glad not to know her this very minute, but...

Is there anything better than to be longing for something, when you know it is within reach?

"What wish did you grant me?" Lolly asked. "I can't tell you," the little girl said very seriously. "But if you believe, it will come true."

And I know, by Noah's face, that even though he knew it, he didn't believe it, even though we all knew it, we were all holding on, somehow, hoping they'd keep trying, that they could just keep on...

We are rational creatures, Professor Jove explained; hope is irrational. We thus set ourselves up for one dispiriting fall after the next. Anger and depression are not diseases or dysfunctions or...

The healing process can only truly begin when we are willing to remember.

There's always new stuff, that's for sure.

Come, dry your eyes, for you are LIFE, rarer than a quark and unpredictable beyond the dreams of Heisenberg; the clay in which the forces that shape all things leave their fingerprints most clearly....

All the problems of the nation are nothing, in comparison to the might of God

You're my love, you're my lighthouse; and the sea is rough and in the dark days.

For what is faith, except a perspective on life seen through the belief that there is a purpose, there is hope, there are miracles, there is something better coming and there is a loving God.

He broke me down past the flesh, past the muscle, past the bone, down to my soul and in a loud provocation, he asked, What are you made of? After I gathered the broken bits and pieces of my life...

If a boat is shattered by a storm, the desperate passengers cling to the floating pieces of the hull. In that moment, it's not a broken boat. To a drowning man, it's a floating miracle.

It's true. I've seen it when the crescent moon shone bright on a cold, dark night. The darker the night, the brighter God's smile.

Your glass seems like it will always be half full even if it falls down and shatters into pieces

I love it when there's nothing left to see but tiny spots of what's still light. Stories piercing the night.

Give sometimes everything will be alright.

My hope is in you, Mighty One!

Everyone needs someone and there is someone for everyone.

Life can be awful. Life can be ugly. And still there are those who smile at the darkness, anticipating the beauty of an eventual sunrise.

The Son of God perishes that we may not perish. He rises that we may rise. That is how much he loves us. He calls us to lay down our burdens at his cross. To rise up and follow him into the beautiful...

There is grace for survival in any situation.