Hope and Charity

Famous quotes containing the words hope and, hope and/or charity:

“Where then shall hope and fear their objects find?”
—John Ashbery (b. 1927)

“The All-Day Bird, the artist,
whitethroated sparrow
striving
in hope and
good faith to make his notes
ever more precise ...”
—Denise Levertov (b. 1923)

“Governments can err, Presidents do make mistakes, but the immortal Dante tells us that divine justice weighs the sins of the cold-blooded and the sins of the warm-hearted in different scales. Better the occasional faults of a Government that lives in a spirit of charity than the constant omission of a Government frozen in the ice of its own indifference.”
—Franklin D. Roosevelt (1882–1945)