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Optimism is faith leading to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
Freedom is one of the deepest and noblest aspirations of the human spirit.
Sell not virtue to purchase wealth, nor liberty to purchase power.
Enlighten the people generally, and tyranny and oppressions of body and mind will vanish like evil spirits at the dawn of day.
Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Let every nation know, whether it wishes us well or ill, that we shall pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship, support any friend, oppose any foe to assure the survival and the success of liberty.
If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.
If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage.
Prepared for the worst,but still praying for the best
I think this generation can play a very important role. If we act now, this could be the first generation to witness universal education.
I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged.
Don't let the hurt of today blind you to the hope of tomorrow. Disappointment ushers in a new appointment.
The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.
I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back.
When Jesus died on the cross and cried out, 'It is finished!' He not only died for our sins, but for our diseases too.
There's always a rainbow at the end of every rain.
God's plan is not to abandon this world, the world which he said was "very good." Rather, he intends to remake it. And when he does he will raise all his people to new bodily life to live in it. That is the promise of the Christian gospel.
Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race.
And when one person taps out a beat, while another leads into the melody, or when three people discover a harmony they never knew existed, or a crowd joins in on a chorus as though to raise the ceiling a few feet higher, then they also know there is hope for the world.
God's kingdom is launched through Jesus and particularly through his death and resurrection; but, by the Spirit, this kingdom is not an escape from the present world but rather its transformation, already in the present (starting with Jesus' resurrection) and in the ultimate future (the new heaven and earth including our own resurrection).
Jesus doesn't give an explanation for the pain and sorrow of the world. He comes where the pain is most acute and takes it upon himself. Jesus doesn't explain why there is suffering, illness, and death in the world. He brings healing and hope. He doesn't allow the problem of evil to be the subject of a seminar. He allows evil to do its worst to him. He exhausts it, drains its power, and emerges with new life.
Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.
I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things.
The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.
Above all shadows rides the sun.
One of the great enemies of hope is forgetting God's promises.
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out.
I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.
Do not despair, thinking that you cannot change yourself after so many years. Simply enter into the presence of Jesus as you are and ask him to give you a fearless heart where he can be with you. You cannot make yourself different. Jesus came to give you a new heart, a new spirit, a new mind, and a new body. Let him transform you by his love and so enable you to receive his affection in your whole being.
They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.
There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
When there is no vision, there is no hope.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God's guiding hand not only in the gentle and pleasant moments but also in the shadows of disappointment and darkness.
"I have a tremendous faith in the possibilities of man, which have shown in his past, and I believe if we avoid war, we shall be able to revive our real vision of life, but that we must see it, and therefore, that we must be critical to where we are."
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.
As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.
The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.
I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.
My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, HE is my righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me. Hallelujah!
So let's take the good times as they go and I'll meet you further on up the road.