quotes about hope and faith

My soul is continually in my hand: yet do I not forget thy law. ~Psalms 119:109



In the midst of great joy, do not promise anyone anything. In the midst of great anger, do not answer anyone's letter. ~Chinese Proverb



When you reduce life to black and white, you never see rainbows. ~Rachel Houston



Anywhere you go liking everyone, everyone will be likeable. ~Mignon McLaughlin, The Second Neurotic's Notebook, 1966



If you call a thing bad you do little, if you call a thing good you do much. ~Johann Wolfgang von Goethe



All happiness depends on a leisurely breakfast. ~John Gunther



If suffering brought wisdom, the dentist�s office would be full of luminous ideas. ~Mason Cooley



No one will ever win the battle of the sexes; there's too much fraternizing with the enemy. ~Henry Kissinger



Don't let aging get you down. It's too hard to get back up. ~Attributed to John Wagner



Some people will never learn anything, for this reason, because they understand everything too soon. ~Alexander Pope



There are men that will make you books, and turn them loose into the world, with as much dispatch as they would do a dish of fritters. ~Miguel de Cervantes



No man suffers injustice without learning, vaguely but surely, what justice is. ~Isaac Rosenfeld



I like my coffee strong, not lethal! ~M*A*S*H



If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing. ~Saint Augustine



I've spent most of my life walking under that hovering cloud, jealousy, whose acid raindrops blurred my vision and burned holes in my heart. Once I learned to use the umbrella of confidence, the skies cleared up for me and the sunshine called joy became my faithful companion. ~Astrid Alauda



The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich. Consequently, the modern poor are not pitied...but written off as trash. The twentieth-century consumer economy has produced the first culture for which a beggar is a reminder of nothing. ~John Berger



All religions issue bibles against him, and say most injurious things about him, but we never hear his side. ~Mark Twain, about the Devil



Just pray for a tough hide and a tender heart. ~Ruth Graham



Love is an irresistible desire to be irresistibly desired. ~Robert Frost



If animals could talk, the world would lose its best listeners. ~Robert Brault, www.robertbrault.com