Gabriel Marcel Quotes

But maybe it's what the world needs. A little less sense, and a little more faith.

Faith in a better than that which appears is no less required by art than by religion.

When I look around me, I can't help having faith.

Faith is a leap into the light, not a step into the darkness.

Faith is the courage to face reality with hope.

All the great spiritual leaders in history were people of hope. Abraham, Moses, Ruth, Mary, Jesus, Rumi, Gandhi, and Dorothy Day all lived with a promise in their hearts that guided them toward the future without the need to know exactly what it would look like. Let's live with hope.

If you're not being pessimistic, you're not being very realistic. But I think one must always have hope, and when you have children, of course, you have no choice but to work your tail off to try and protect the future for your children. And that is infused by hope in the end.

I'm not a pessimist, even though I do think awful things are going to happen.

I imagine that yes is the only living thing.

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

Hope is the feeling we have that the feeling we have is not permanent.

In so far as I have any beliefs, I suppose I'm like that old Peggy Lee song, 'Is That All There Is?' I want to believe there's something else going on, but what that something else is I don't pretend to know.

If I were dying, my last words would be: Have faith and pursue the unknown end.

I know there is something out there and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad.

So, instead, I try to put in light and hope for the best.

God is to me the Great Unknown. I believe in Him, but I find Him not.

Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent.

I'm always sort of anticipating life being difficult, but on a basic level, that's sort of on the surface, on a basic level, I'm optimistic in the sense that I think it's all going to be alright in the end.

Uncertainty is the refuge of hope.

Life is an unanswered question, but let's still believe in the dignity and importance of the question.

Something will turn up.

I don't know what the future holds. All I know is, I'm good today. Real good.

I would say I'm cautiously optimistic.

You were supposed to have hope, right? You were supposed to respect its power and hold on. And so I did. I held, and held, and let hope fill me. But as the days went on, it seemed I could be holding for a long, long time. Hope could be the most powerful thing or the most useless

Wishes are false. Hope is true. Hope makes its own magic.