Top 1200 Hope And Despair Quotes & Sayings - Page 3

I shall despair when I despair of myself, of God and humanity.

Despair is not a particularly respectable condition and yet despair and delight alternate like systole and diastole in my heart.

To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

I would say to my soul, O my soul, this is not the place of despair; this is not the time to despair in. As long as mine eyes can find a promise in the Bible, as long as there is a moment left me of breath or life in this world, so long will I wait or look for mercy, so long will I fight against unbelief and despair.

Sport has the power to change the world... Sport can awaken hope where there was previously only despair.

The chaos in our world may have brought you close to despair, but if you are willing to look at reasons for hope, perhaps you are ready for the 'Aquarian Conspiracy.'

I don't feel despair because I am able to make the films I want to make, and that gives me hope.

But only a person in the depths of despair neglected to look beyond winter to the spring that inevitably followed, bringing back color and life and hope.

Hope is sweet. Hope is illumining. Hope is fulfilling. Hope can be everlasting. Therefore, do not give up hope, Even in the sunset of your life.

The greatest faith is born in the hour of despair. When we can see no hope and no way out, then faith rises and brings the victory.

My despair is less despair than boredom and loneliness.

So is Hope Changed for Despair-one laid upon the shelf, We take the other. Under heaven's high cope Fortune is god-all you endure and do Depends on circumstance as much as you.

Whoever has nothing to hope, let him despair of nothing.

Only the man who has had to face despair is really convinced that he needs mercy. Those who do not want mercy never seek it. It is better to find God on the threshold of despair than to risk our lives in a complacency that has never felt the need of forgiveness. A life that is without problems may literally be more hopeless than one that always verges on despair.

In relation to the question of hope, I think the only hope we have is hope against hope. We hope for a better world. But of course we can do better than just hope.

Boast is always a cry of despair, except in the young it is a cry of hope.

In fine, a life of good or evil, the hope of Heaven or the despair of Hell, Faustus stands as a reminder that the choice between these two absolutes also falls to us.

A reason I became a writer was to escape the hopelessness and despair of the real world and enter the world of hope I could create with my imagination.

It's the circle of life, and it moves us all, through despair and hope, through faith and love, 'till we find our place, on the path unwinding.

It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not.

You have to know your own truth and stick to it. And never despair. Never give up. There's always hope.

Sin is: before God, or with the conception of God, in despair not to will to be oneself, or in despair to will to be oneself. Thus sin is intensified weakness or intensified defiance: sin is the intensification of despair. The emphasis is on before God, or with a conception of God; it is the conception of God that makes sin dialectically, ethically, and religiously what lawyers call 'aggravated' despair.

Courage is not the absence of despair; it is, rather, the capacity to move ahead in spite of despair.

'Revelations' is one of the most important pieces to the African American arts. It assesses the hope and despair of a people and overcoming the struggle with our faith.

Hope in gates, hope in spoons, hope in doors, hope in tables, no hope in daintiness and determination. Hope in dates.

Will you keep going when you don't know why? When you can't get any answers that would make the pain go away, will you still say, 'My Lord,' even though his ways are not clear to you? Will you keep going-with all the grace and grit and faith you can muster-and live in hope that one day God will set everything right. Will you trust that God is good? ... Ultimately, the choice everyone faces is the choice between hope and despair. Jesus says, 'Choose hope.'

Thank God for beautiful songs about feeling despair when you yourself are in despair. They really get us through.

To face life without hope can mean to live without despair.

Appetite, with an opinion of attaining, is called hope; the same, without such opinion, despair.

(Such a life)engaged gross quantities of hope and despair and set them wildly side by side, like a Third World country of the heart.

Write a little every day, without hope, without despair.

Absence from whom we love is worse than death, and frustrates hope severer than despair.

Who turns away from gazing at the sun Sees its dusk images fill all the air. It is not otherwise when Hope is done: Her darkling phantoms make the heaven of Despair.

[Marriage] happens as with cages: the birds without despair to get in, and those within despair of getting out.

For me, I hope last year was the last when anger, frustration and despair ruled my professional psychology.

We in this House are role models. People all over the world watch us and study us. When we fall short, they lose hope. When we fail, they despair.

...the habit of despair is worse than despair itself.

My God, whose son, as on this night, took on Him the form of man, and for man vouchsafed to suffer and bleed, controls thy hand, and without His behest, thou canst not strike a stroke. My God is sinless, eternal, all-wise, and in Him is my trust, and though stripped and crushed by thee, -though naked, desolate, void of resource- I do not despair:where the lance of Guthrum now wet with my blood, I should not despair. I watch, I toil, I hope, I pray: Jehovah, in His own time, will aid.

To create something beautiful about despair or out of a feeling of despair is for me the most hopeful life affirming thing a person can do

“To think the way you do,” he said smiling, “you have to be a man who lives either on a tremendous despair, or on a tremendous hope.” “On both, perhaps.”

Don't despair, not even over the fact that you don't despair.

Who can hope for nothing, should despair for nothing.

Above all, we must abolish hope in the heart of man. A calm despair, without angry convulsions, without reproaches to Heaven, is the essence of wisdom.

Art forms that appeal to [leftists] tend to focus on ... defeat and despair ... as if there were no hope of accomplishing anything through rational calculation.

What would it mean to live in a city whose people were changing each other's despair into hope?-- You yourself must change it.

The way past despair and false hope is just letting go. It doesn't improve your odds of survival, but it doesn't waste mental energy.

As for despair, it comes about when I have been a fool and hate myself and despair of my personality. I am prone to gloom, but not depression as such.

Be not in despair, the way is very difficult, like walking on the edge of a razor; yet despair not, arise, awake, and find the ideal, the goal.

There is no despair so absolute as that which comes with the first moments of our first great sorrow, when we have not yet known what it is to have suffered and be healed, to have despaired and have recovered hope.

Despair is good. Despair can be the nadir of one life and the starting point of an ascent into another, better one.

...you have to use your failures as stepping stones to success. You have to maintain a fine balance between hope and despair. In the end it’s all a question of balance.

Isak Dinesen said that she wrote a little every day, without hope and without despair. I like that.

Your spirit is the part of you that seeks meaning and purpose. It's the part drawn to hope, that will not give in to despair.

There is hope after despair and many suns after darkness.

Hopelessness may be the saddest word in our language. Despair is the enemy of our souls. It can paralyze us, halt our progress, and cause us to lose our way. But hope awakens us like a light shining in the darkness. We can endure all things when our hope is centered in one who will never fail us-our Savior, Jesus Christ, who is the light of the world.

Sport can create hope, where once there was only despair. It is more powerful than governments in breaking down racial barriers.

Nihilism is not only despair and negation, but above all the desire to despair and to negate.

Nobody grows old merely by living a number of years. People grow old by deserting their ideals. Years wrinkle the skin, but giving up enthusiasm wrinkles the soul. Worry, doubt, self-distrust, fear and despair - these are the long years that bow the head and turn the growing spirit back to dust. You are as young as your faith and as old as your doubts; as young as you self-confidence, as old as your fear; as young as your hope, as old as your despair.

Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.

Only a soul full of despair can ever attain serenity and, to be in despair, you must have loved a good deal and still love the world.