Laurence J. Peter Quotes

In order to be a realist you must believe in miracles.

Anyone who doesn't believe in miracles is not a realist.

Hope is a very unruly emotion.

One must always hope when one is desperate, and doubt when one hopes.

Our faith in the present dies out long before our faith in the future.

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

I'm completely optimistic - I know the end is coming!

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

Faith may be encouraged by what has happened in the past, or what is thought to have happened in the past, but the only proof of it is in the future.

Faith is Doubt.

Faith is the effort to believe what your common sense tells you is not true.

I would say I'm cautiously optimistic.

I am realistic – I expect miracles.

To be realistic, you have to believe in miracles.

Irony is the attendant of hope and the fuel of hope is innocence.

Miracles happen to those who believe in them.

I don't have any expectations of anything.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

It was important to me to believe, because if I don't believe, how can I expect them to believe?

We know little of the things for which we pray.

I like the probability of the impossible.

Without faith, nothing is possible. With it, nothing is impossible.

I believe God will make a way.

Sometimes I have a hard time distinguishing between faith and hope.

The church is in the hope business. We, of all people, ought to be known most for our hope because our hope is founded on something deeper than human ability or wishful thinking.