“With us, there’s a saying: La esperanza muere ultima. Hope dies last. You can’t lose hope. If you lose hope, you lose everything.”
--Jessie de la Cruz

“A true Christian should have but one fear—lest he should not hope enough.”
--Walter Elliot

“There are none in the humanly “down” position so low that they cannot be lifted up by entering God’s order, and none in the humanly “up” position so high that they can disregard God’s point of view on their lives. The barren, the widow, the orphan, the eunuch, the alien, all models of human hopelessness, are fruitful and secure in God’s care.”
--Dallas Willard

“Hope without patience results in the illusion of optimism or, more terrifying, the desperation of fanaticism. The hope necessary to initiate us into the adventure must be schooled by patience if the adventure is to be sustained. Through patience, we learn to continue to hope, even though our hope seems to offer little chance of fulfillment. . . . Yet patience equally requires hope, for without hope, patience to easily accepts the world and the self for what it is, rather than what it can or should be.”
--Stanley Hauerwas

“The differences between black folk and white folk are not blood or color, and the ties that bind us are deeper than those that separate us. The common road of hope, which we all traveled, has brought us into a stronger kinship than any words, laws, or legal claims.”
--Richard Wright

Hope

"Lord, the Scripture says: “There is a time for silence and a time for speech.” Savior, teach me the silence of humility, the silence of wisdom, the silence of love, the silence of perfection, the silence that speaks without words, the silence of faith. Lord, teach me to silence my own heart that I may listen to the gentle movement of the Holy Spirit within me and sense the depths which are of God."
- Frankfurt prayer

Silence

"Live among men as if God beheld you; speak to God as if men were listening."
- Lucius Annaeus Seneca

"The unexamined life is not worth living."
- Socrates

Life

“Integrity without knowledge is weak and useless, and knowledge without integrity is dangerous and dreadful.” – Samuel Johnson

Integrity

"Humility does not mean thinking less of yourself than of other people, nor does it mean having a low opinion of your own gifts. It means freedom from thinking about yourself one way or the other at all…The humility which consists in being a great deal occupied about yourself, and saying you are of little worth, is not Christian humility. It is one form of self-occupation and a very poor and futile one at that." - William Temple

Humility