"Nuggets of Hope"

Hope is the greatest refining influence in human life. It is the "echo of the spirit" in us and, like other echoes, it calls back the voice of our own desires, only in a more delicate, ethereal tone; and each successive echo is higher up and farther away and more spiritual than the last.

- "He begins to die who quits his desires"
- English proverb

- "Lord, grant that I may always desire more than I accomplish"
- Michelangelo

- "He who wishes to ascend the ladders of the world, will find at the same time the staircase of heaven"
- German proverb

- "Were it not for hope the heart would break"
- Scottish proverb

- "Though hope be a small child she can carry a great anchor"
- English proverb

- "In the kingdom of hope there is no winter"
- Old Russian proverb

- "Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life"
- Proverb of Solomon

- "A misty morning does not simply a cloudy day"
- Ancient proverb