Thornton Wilder Quotes

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

The act of making poetry is an act of hope.

Hope and faith are two intimate brothers; they always go together. Hope nourishes faith and faith treasures hope.

Faith and optimism come from love.

I say let's be idealists. "Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not yet see" (Hebrews 11:1).

Never fear: Thank Home, and Poetry, and the Force behind both.

If we were logical, the future would be bleak, indeed. But we are more than logical. We are human beings, and we have faith, and we have hope, and we can work.

Because of my faith and my imagination, I was able to enjoy my childhood, even though it was tough.

I believed totally in the possibilities implied in the series. I never thought of it as fantasy. Far from it.

The biggest emotion in creation is the bridge to optimism.

We can live with lots of things, but we can't live without imagination, we can't live without hope.

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note.

You do have a Dream. It's part of what it means to be human, created in the image of God.

I couldn't be a writer without hope. I think I became a writer because I'm pretty optimistic.

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

Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.

Hope is a gift. You can't choose to have it. To believe and yet to have no hope is to thirst beside a fountain.

I believe in dreams. People should have faith in the songs poets sing.

To me, hope is a moral imperative. I have hope and faith in forces unseen.

In moments of doubt I cry, ‘Could God Himself create such lovely things as I dreamed?’ ‘Whence then came thy dream?’ answers Hope.

We must have the faith that things will work out somehow, that God will make a way for us when there seems no way.

Faith is the assurance that the best and holiest dream is true after all.

Hope is the mother of faith.

Hope is never ill when faith is well.

There is no love without hope, no hope without love, and neither hope nor love without faith.