He hoped and prayed that there wasn’t an afterlife. Then he realized there was a contradiction involved here and merely hoped that there wasn’t an afterlife.

Hope is not a resting place but a starting point – a cactus, not a cushion.

Man is, properly speaking, based upon hope, he has no other possession but hope; this world of his is emphatically the place of hope.

From an eternal perspective, the only death that is truly premature is the death of one who is not prepared to meet God.

This President is going to lead us out of this recovery.

I am prepared for the worst, but hope for the best.

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. The important thing is not to stop questioning.

We turn toward God only to obtain the impossible.

Look for yourself, and you will find in the long run only hatred, loneliness, despair, rage, ruin, and decay. But look for Christ, and you will find Him, and with Him everything else thrown in.

You accept that this civilisation could be abolished and life will begin later on after a few thousand years because that is something that has happened in the history of this planet. When you have peace in yourself and accept, then you are calm enough to do something, but if you are carried by despair there is no hope.

The formula ‚Two and two make five‘ is not without its attractions.

Doctors will have more lives to answer for in the next world than even we generals.

Woman’s at best a contradiction still.

It was something I never expected to – I never expected the book would sell in the first place. I was hoping for a quick and merciful death at the hands of the reviewers.

All truths are easy to understand once they are discovered; the point is to discover them.

In America today, we are nearer a final triumph over poverty than is any other land.

What I’m asking for is hard. It’s easier to be cynical; to accept that change isn’t possible, and politics is hopeless, and to believe that our voices and actions don’t matter. But if we give up now, then we forsake a better future.

True wisdom comes to each of us when we realize how little we understand about life, ourselves, and the world around us.

A lot of people, because of my contempt for the false consolations of religion, think of me as a symbolic public opponent of that in extremis. And sometimes that makes me feel a bit alarmed, to be the repository of other people’s hope.

In the course of history, men come to see that iron necessity is neither iron nor necessary.

It is a vain hope to make people happy by politics.

I find myself hoping a total end of all the unhappy divisions of mankind by party-spirit, which at best is but the madness of many for the gain of a few.

I totally disagree with the view that the Tibet struggle will die, and there will be no hope for Tibet, after the Dalai Lama passes away.

The sun is gone, but I have a light.

To go to the world below, having a soul which is like a vessel full of injustice, is the last and worst of all the evils.

I’m going to let God be the judge of who goes to heaven and hell.

We have always held to the hope, the belief, the conviction that there is a better life, a better world, beyond the horizon.

My great hope is to laugh as much as I cry; to get my work done and try to love somebody and have the courage to accept the love in return.

I have found that hollow, which even I had relied on for solid.

There is a piece of me that likes to fondly imagine my maverick and rebellious nature. But, more accurately, I like to have a nice and cosy institution that I can rub up against a little bit.

The secret is not to give up hope. It’s very hard not to because if you’re really doing something worthwhile I think you will be pushed to the brink of hopelessness before you come through the other side.

I would rather live my life as if there is a God and die to find out there isn’t, than live as if there isn’t and to die to find out that there is.

Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment.

What can I know? What ought I to do? What can I hope?

I haven’t had that one great love, which is good. I don’t want that to be in the past – I want it to be in the future.

I am honorary President of the American Humanist Society, having succeeded the late, great science fiction writer Isaac Asimov in that utterly functionless capacity. We Humanists behave as well as we can, without any rewards or punishments in an Afterlife.

Our lifelong certainties about the world can be demolished in a single second.

I don’t believe in the after life, although I am bringing a change of underwear.

I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character.

There is no hope unmingled with fear, and no fear unmingled with hope.

Your ordinary acts of love and hope point to the extraordinary promise that every human life is of inestimable value.

Well, we can’t say any more than we can say there is no god, there is no afterlife. We can only say there is no persuasive evidence for or argument for it.

I don’t know what can be so dangerous about giving people hope.

I see the world being slowly transformed into a wilderness; I hear the approaching thunder that, one day, will destroy us too. I feel the suffering of millions. And yet, when I look up at the sky, I somehow feel that everything will change for the better, that this cruelty too shall end, that peace and tranquility will return once more.

Hope in reality is the worst of all evils because it prolongs the torments of man.

We have got to change our ethics and our financial system and our whole way of understanding the world. It has to be a world in which people live rather than die; a sustainable world. It could be great.

The less we deserve good fortune, the more we hope for it.

What were once only hopes for the future have now come to pass; it is almost exactly 13 years since the overwhelming majority of people in Ireland and Northern Ireland voted in favour of the agreement signed on Good Friday 1998, paving the way for Northern Ireland to become the exciting and inspirational place that it is today.

There is no hope of anyone going to Heaven unless they believe this truth I am presenting. You cannot go to Heaven unless you believe with all your heart that Jesus took your place in Hell.

I don’t think I’ve ever been an agnostic. I’ve always thought there’s a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there’s a world to come.

To me, we’re marketing hope.

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It’s perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we’ve learned something from yesterday.

The wise have always said the same things, and fools, who are the majority have always done just the opposite.

A church is a place in which gentlemen who have never been to heaven brag about it to persons who will never get there.

It is justice and respect that I want the world to dust off and put – without delay, and with tenderness – back on the head of the Palestinian child. It will be imperfect justice and respect because the injustice and disrespect have been so severe. But I believe we are right to try.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

Youth is easily deceived because it is quick to hope.

Everywhere I go I find that people… both leaders and individuals… are asking one basic question, ‚Is there any hope for the future?‘ My answer is the same, ‚Yes, through Jesus Christ.‘

That we must all die, we always knew; I wish I had remembered it sooner.

Hope is favorable and confident expectation; it’s an expectant attitude that something good is going to happen and things will work out, no matter what situation we’re facing.

When we look back on all the perils through which we have passed and at the mighty foes that we have laid low and all the dark and deadly designs that we have frustrated, why should we fear for our future? We have come safely through the worst.