Dieter F. Uchtdorf Quotes

Optimism is a matter optics, of seeing what you want to see and not seeing what you don't want to see. Hope, on the other hand, is a Christian virtue. It is the unblinking acknowledgment of all that militates against hope, and the unrelenting refusal to despair. We have not the right to despair, and, finally, we have not the reason to despair

HOPE sustains us through despair. Hope teaches that there is reason to rejoice...even when all seems dark around us.

Hope cherishes no illusions, nor does it yield to cynicism.

It takes courage to believe the best is yet to come!

God works where there's an attitude of faith. I believe faith is all about hope.

While there's life, there is hope.

Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.

No matter what happens, I feel very good about the future.

I'm very much an optimist. I don't think I could do my work if I didn't believe there was some kind of hope for humanity.

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

Although the life of a person is in a land full of thorns and weeds, there is always a space in which the good seed can grow. You have to trust God.

Hope is a state of mind, not of the world. Hope, in this deep and powerful sense, is not the same as joy that things are going well, or willingness to invest in enterprises that are obviously heading for success, but rather an ability to work for something because it is good.

Have a little faith. Don't give up.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

He who has hope, has everything.

Something will turn up.

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.

We always have hope. Hope dies last.

Courage and comfort, all shall yet go well

There is one form of hope which is never unwise, and which certainly does not diminish with the increase of knowledge. In that form it changes its name, and we call it patience.

Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?

No matter how long it's been, no matter how impossible it looks, if you'll stay in faith, your time is coming.

Give us the strength, give us the wisdom, and give us tomorrow.

I love life, even when bad things happen to me. I can't stop loving it. Every season of the year comes with a promise that something wonderful is going to happen to me someday.

Believe in miracles. And live in a way that might necessitate one.