Robert Runcie Quotes

Well everybody in Casablanca has problems. Yours may work out.

Just when you think it can't get worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it will. But as long as you remember that he loves you and you love him you'll be just fine.

My philosophy is: Life is hard, but God is good. Try not to confuse the two.

I adore themes of hope and courage and the ways we find meaning through suffering.

There are no guarantees. From the viewpoint of fear, none are strong enough. From the viewpoint of love, none are necessary.

Always enjoy the ride, because you don't know where it's going, but it's going to be all right.

There's stuff going on in the world right now, which you can't imagine why is this happening; it's crazy. I don't know what the answer is, but if you didn't have faith in the universe that somehow something great would arrive at the end, then we'd all give up, and that would be a waste of everyone's time.

I always want to find meaning in stuff that sucks - I don't want it to be the end of the sentence.

We can live tough lives, but the human spirit is stronger, seemingly, than anything. There is redemption, hope, and love. All different forms of heartbreak, but beyond all that there is hope, there is love. There is beauty and bliss.

He was never without misery, and never without hope.

This, too, will pass.

Just when you think it can't get any worse, it can. And just when you think it can't get any better, it can.

I glory in this world of men and women, torn with troubles, yet living on to love and laugh through it all.

What once seemed such a curse has become a blessing. All the agony that threatened to destroy my life now seems like the fertile ground for greater trust, stronger hope, and deeper love.

You never know how things will work out. After all the bad reasons in the world, some good came out.

Notwithstanding the sight of all our miseries, which press upon us and take us by the throat, we have an instinct which we cannot repress, and which lifts us up.

"The weird world rolls on..." meaning that through all the ups and downs, all the travails that we go through, all the horrors, all the wars, all the deaths, all the cruelties, there's still something that keeps us wanting to wake up the next morning and go on with our lives - to make children, to fall in love, to continue humanity.

I don’t know why terrible things happen to us sometimes. But I have to believe that something good is going to come of this.

In my eighty years, I prefer to call that the forty-first anniversary of my thirty ninth birthday, I've seen what men can do for each other and do to each other, I've seen war and peace, feast and famine, depression and prosperity, sickness and health. I've seen the depth of suffering and the peaks of triumph and I know in my heart that man is good, that what is right will always eventually triumph and that there is purpose and worth to each and every life.

Whenever you looked forward to anything pleasant you were sure to be more or less disappointed . . . perhaps that is true. But there is a good side to it too. The bad things don't always come up to your expectations either . . . they nearly always turn out ever so much better than you think.

It is possible to have second chances. When I thought everything was lost, when I reached bottom and things didn't go my way, the universe gave me a second chance.

Despair is vinegar from the wine of hope.

You never know what even the bad situations will lead to, which I guess is true with anything in life.

Profound optimism is always on the side of the tortured.