Spark Of Hope Quotes

#1. I'm Angelina," she says. "Are you here to save us?" I can see a tiny spark of hope awaken in her eyes.
"You're right, Angelina - I'm here to save you."
"Can you? Really?"
"I'll try," I say and the girl smiles.

Markus Zusak

#2. If Christ had not gone to the cross and suffered in our stead, the just for the unjust, there would not have been a spark of hope for us. There would have been a mighty gulf between ourselves and God, which no man ever could have passed.

J.C. Ryle

#3. Always the same. Now a spark of hope flashes up, then a sea of despair rages, and always pain; always pain, always despair, and always the same. When alone he had a dreadful and distressing desire to call someone, but he knew beforehand that with others present it would be still worse.

Leo Tolstoy

#4. Neither myths nor mysteries can hold a candle to the most infinitesimal spark of hope.

N.K. Jemisin

#5. His face was tense, his jaw flexed as he stared at her. She could hardly stand to meet his eyes. They were an ocean of betrayal. They probed her, searching for the smallest sign that she didn't mean it. That spark of hope that never seemed to go out.

Aprilynne Pike

#6. I clung to that spark of hope,
nurturing it into a small flame that
chased some of the shadows in my heart
away.

Richelle Mead

#7. The only historian capable of fanning the spark of hope in the past is the one who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he is victorious.

Walter Benjamin

#8. I know ... I will never see or meet her again, because she is just a ghost from my dreams. In spite of this, she remains with me as a spark of hope. Because when she throws herself desperately into my arms and my hands embrace her, for the first and last time in my life I feel true love.

Alexandar Tomov

#9. For it's human nature even in the direst extremity to see a spark of hope and blow it into flames.

Leo Perutz

#10. There should be a word for the microscopic spark of hope that you dare not entertain in case the mere act of acknowledging it will cause it to vanish, like trying to look at a photon. You can only sidle up to it, lookong past it, walking past it, waiting for it to get big enough to face the world

Terry Pratchett

#11. The Messiah comes not only as the redeemer, he comes as the subduer of Antichrist. Only that historian will have the gift of fanning the spark of hope in the past who is firmly convinced that even the dead will not be safe from the enemy if he wins. And this enemy has not ceased to be victorious.

Walter Benjamin

#12. Hope is the only thing stronger than fear. A little hope is effective. A lot of hope is dangerous. A spark is just fine as long as its contained.

Robert Ludlum

#13. Happiness is more about removing the blocks to Love and remembering who you are than changing your situation or another person.

Lee L Jampolsky

#14. The spark of divinity enfolds in love, in light and in faith.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#15. What I've tried to do is bring the madness out in the open. Keep it under wraps, and it erupts into wars and violence.

Dory Previn

#16. Books are personal, passionate. They stir emotions and spark thought in a manner all their own, and I'm convinced that the shattered world has less hope for repair if reading becomes an ever smaller part of it.

Frank Bruni

#17. Ah, brothers, this God which I created was human work and human madness, like all gods!
He was human, and only a poor piece of man and Ego: this phantom came to me from my own fire and ashes, that is the truth! It did not come from the 'beyond'!

Friedrich Nietzsche

#18. Seen politically, systems follow one another, each consuming the previous one. They live on ever-bequeathed and ever-disappointed hope, which never entirely fades. Its spark is all that survives, as it eats its way along the blasting fuse. For this spark, history is merely an occasion, never a goal.

Ernst Junger

#19. In the sacredness of pureness; a spark of divinity manifest.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#20. Quickly look down, now you tell me, when you were little did you ever imagine that you'd be wearing those shoes? Mind blowing isn't it?

Neil Leckman

#21. Usually I read several books at a time - old books, new books, fiction, nonfiction, verse, anything - and when the bedside heap of a dozen volumes or so has dwindled to two or three, which generally happens by the end of one week, I accumulate another pile.

Vladimir Nabokov

#22. One doesn't soon forget the natural beauty of Washington, although those of us who live here do sometimes take it for granted.

Katharine Graham

#23. Love is a spark of divinity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#24. Sometimes Fox thought all the men she knew had the dreams and wishes of nine-year-old boys - at least all the men she liked.

Cornelia Funke

#25. And where was happiness? In the yesterdays? In the tomorrows? Not in this hour, this minute, this second. We had one thing, and one thing only, to give us a spark of joy. Hope.

V.C. Andrews

#26. I had a slight hope the phrase 'spark joy' might become popular, as it was the keyword that I wanted to put forward in the first place.

Marie Kondo

#27. A seed is really something spiritual as much as it is something material. It contains a life spark that allows the regenerative process to happen. We need seeds because they are the physical manifestation of that concept that we call hope.

Gary Paul Nabhan

#28. The selfless love that we give to others, to the point of being willing to sacrifice our lives for them, is all the proof I need that human beings are not mere animals of self-interest. We carry within us a divine spark, and if we chose to recognize it, our lives have dignity, meaning, hope.

Dean Koontz

#29. Any institution faces two basic choices if they hope to spark new ideas. One is to leverage the brains trust within their organization by creating a special event dedicated to new thinking. The other is to look outside themselves to stimulate solutions.

Simon Mainwaring

#30. What we try to say is that it doesn't matter if you are a Republican or a Democrat or conservative or independent. You are equally responsible for your place in the culture, and you must make a contribution, and you must accept responsibility for what goes down on your watch.

Martin Sheen

#31. Whenever I find a spark of that hidden fire that will sooner or later consume the old and create the new, I am drawn to it with love and hope, regarding it as a sign of my future home.

Friedrich Schleiermacher

#32. A glorious life is a spark of divinity.

Lailah Gifty Akita

#33. A Christian will part with anything rather than his hope; he knows that hope will keep the heart both from aching and breaking, from fainting and sinking; he knows that hope is a beam of God, a spark of glory, and that nothing shall extinguish it till the soul be filled with glory.

Thomas Brooks

#34. Now, Muriel Spark is said to have felt that she was taking dictation from God every morning
sitting there, one supposes, plugged into a Dictaphone, typing away, humming. But this is a very hostile and aggressive position. One might hope for bad things to rain down on a person like this.

Anne Lamott

#35. There is always that one spark that gives hope for better things when life is bad.

Laurann Dohner

#36. It's just a spark but it's enough to keep us going.

Paramore