Max Lucado Quotes

We need hope, or else we cannot endure.

To live is to wrestle with despair, yet never allow despair to have the last word.

I cannot lose the one thing that keeps me alive : hope -

I am of the opinion, and even more so the older I get, that it is more difficult to have hope than it is to despair. And I mean this in the sense that in order to have hope you must acknowledge the despair and then you have to get beyond it. Taken from a radio interview given on BBC Radio 4's Open Book

The one thing that I cannot do without each day is hope.

I like to keep my issues drawn, it's always darkest before the dawn.

I know that you cannot live on hope alone, but without it, life is not worth living. And you...And you...And you...Gotta give em hope.

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

I laugh, and it's laughter, not light, that casts out the darkness building within me, that reminds me I am still alive, even in this strange place where everything I've ever known is coming apart.

Even in the worst of situations-even when it seems no one in the world appreciates you-as long as you have hope, everthing can get better

It’s a wonder I’m even alive. Sometimes I think that. I think that I can’t believe I haven’t killed myself. But there’s something in me that just keeps going on. I think it has something to do with tomorrow, that there is always one, and that everything can change when it comes.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

Hope keeps you alive.

I think faith is vitally important to your day, your seconds in each day. Faith helps to get you through the day.

We haven't lost everything, if we haven't lost our hope.

If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning.

Hope saves a person in the midst of misfortunes.

Even when there seems to be nothing else, there is hope.

The kind of hope I'm talking about is the belief that something good will come. That everything you're going through and everything you've gone through will be worth the struggles and frustrations. The kind of hope I'm talking about is a deep belief that the world can be changed, that the impossible is possible.

The soul does not give itself up to despair until it has exhausted all illusions.

Hope is the second soul of the unhappy.

As individuals, we know that suffering is temporary, and hope is eternal.

Having hope is hard; harder when you get older.