"Hope is one of the ways
in which what is merely future
and potential is made vividly
present and actual to us.
Hope is the positive,
as anxiety is the negative,
mode of awaiting the future."
-Emil Brunner

"Everything that is done in
the world is done by hope.
No husbandman would sow one grain
of corn if he hoped not it
would grow up and become seed;
no bachelor would marry a wife
if he hope not to have children;
no merchant or tradesman
would set himself to work
if he did not hope to
reap benefit thereby."
-Martin Luther

"A sublime hope cheers ever
the faithful heart, that elsewhere,
in other regions of the universal powers,
souls are now acting, enduring and daring,
which can love us, and which we can love."
-Ralph Waldo Emerson

"Hope itself is a species of happiness,
and, perhaps, the chief happiness
which this world affords; but, like all
other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the
excesses of hope must be expiated by pain."
-Samuel Johnson

"Hope is the last thing that dies in a man,
and although it be exceedingly deceitful,
yet it is of good use to us,
that while we are traveling through life
it conducts us in an easier
and more pleasant way to our journey's end."
-Francois de La Rochefoucauld

"Hope is some extraordinary spiritual grace
that God gives us to control our fears,
not to oust them."
-Vincent McNabb

"Hope is like the sun,
which, as we walk toward it,
casts a shadow of our burdens behind us."
-Unknown