The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.
The religion of Christ is not only for those favoured souls who can manage to leave this earth on the wings of contemplation. It is for struggling souls too, all blinded by the blood and sweat of the world’s conflict, half caught in the mire of its beastliness, and yet somehow keeping hold of that Christ who pardoned the adulteress, and saved his doubting apostle from being swallowed up by the waves.
Book: The Hidden Stream
If God causes you to suffer much it is a sign that He has great designs for you and that He certainly intends to make you a saint. And if you wish to become a great saint, entreat Him yourself to give you much opportunity for suffering; for there is no wood better to kindle the fire of holy love than the wood of the cross, which Christ used for His own great sacrifice of boundless charity.
[Hope] is not the optimism that you find in our society, because people are rich, people are young, people are healthy, people are successful, people are having a good time—you know the sort of optimism which, to my mind, is mostly a good digestion…everything functions well and you are very optimistic. Hope is only supernatural. There is no natural hope, because ultimately life ends in death.
TV: Suffering & What to Do With It
If you see a friend without a smile; give him one of yours.
Anyone can give up, it is the easiest thing in the world to do. But to hold it together when everyone else would understand if you fell apart, that’s true strength.
We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope.
Deliver me from Swedish furniture.
Deliver me from clever art…
…May I never be complete.
May I never be content.
May I never be perfect.
Deliver me from clever art…
…May I never be complete.
May I never be content.
May I never be perfect.
Movie: Fight Club
And then, something happened. I let go. Lost in oblivion. Dark and silent and complete. I found freedom. Losing all hope was freedom.
Movie: Fight Club
I find I’m so excited, I can barely sit still or hold a thought in my head. I think it the excitement only a free man can feel, a free man at the start of a long journey whose conclusion is uncertain. I hope I can make it across the border. I hope to see my friend, and shake his hand. I hope the Pacific is as blue as it has been in my dreams. I hope.
Movie: The Shawshank Redemption
Hope is a good thing, and good things never die.
Movie: The Shawshank Redemption
If you can’t run anymore, you crawl, and if you can’t do that…you find someone to carry you.
TV: Firefly
I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love,
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith
But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love,
For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith
But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.
Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought:
So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.
Poem: East Coker (Quartet No. 2)
The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness that characterizes the thoughts of men today.
There are no hopeless situations: there are only men who have grown hopeless about them.
Let Heaven exist, even though our dwelling place is Hell.
Short story: Deutsches Requiem
Our starting point is to put aside our apathy, complacency and cynicism and to choose hope, hope that leads to engagement. It is only in our hope and by our actions that the world will change