What can I know?
What ought I to do?
What can I hope?
—Immanuel Kant
How then is perfection to be sought?
Wherein lies our hope? In education, and in nothing else.
—Immanuel Kant
Rules for happiness: something to do, someone to love, something to hope for.
—Immanuel Kant
Hope is a waking dream.
—Aristotle
“Kill hope in a man, and you have killed the man’s best self.”
Looking back, there is so much to grieve over. We can see nothing at all in ourselves to praise, but so much in our Savior. His patience has never failed. He has never given up hope for us. There is something very heartening in this.
—Amy Carmichael
We cannot fill ourselves with hope; we have no wells of hope within us. But God has.
—Amy Carmichael
I look with humble hope to the promises of Scripture. Ho everyone that thirsts, etc.
—William Wilberforce
I humbly hope I look up with faith as the only way of obtaining all spiritual blessings, renouncing any other plea but Christs’s merits and the Scripture promises.
—William Wilberforce
While there’s life, there’s hope.
—Cicero
A divine person is the prophecy of the mind; a friend is the hope of the heart.
—Ralph Waldo Emerson
Sanctification in myself, and the ingathering of God’s elect, was all my desire; and the hope of its accomplishment, all my joy.
—David Brainerd
I hope that real love and truth are stronger in the end than any evil or misfortune in the world.
—Charles Dickens
Love knows no limit to its endurance, no end to its trust, no fading of its hope; it can outlast anything. Love still stands when all else has fallen.
—Blaise Pascal
One day everything will be well, that is our hope. Everything’s fine today, that is our illusion.
—Voltaire
In these days of difficulty, we Americans everywhere must and shall choose the path of social justice…, the path of faith, the path of hope, and the path of love toward our fellow man.
—Franklin D. Roosevelt
A little of true peace, a little of the joys of the manifested love of Christ, and a little of the true and holy hope of eternal life, are enough to compensate for all that toil and weariness, and to erase the remembrance of it from the mind.
—Jonathan Edwards
Christ not only delivers from fears of hell and of wrath, but he gives hopes of heaven, and the enjoyment of God’s love.
—Jonathan Edwards
I only wish, that I may have grace given me to preach the truth, as it is in JESUS; and then, come what will, I hope I shall (as I do, blessed be GOD) rejoice.
—George Whitefield
My hope is built, not upon frames and feelings, but upon the atonement and mediation of Jesus.
—John Newton