Hope and Charity

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

    “I feel a kind of reverence for the first books of young authors. There is so much aspiration in them, so much audacious hope and trembling fear, so much of the heart’s history, that all errors and shortcomings are for a while lost sight of in the amiable self assertion of youth.”
    —Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807–1882)

    “We are all such accidents. We do not make up history and culture. We simply appear, not by our own choice. We make what we can of our condition with the means available. We must accept the mixture as we find it—the impurity of it, the tragedy of it, the hope of it.”
    —Saul Bellow (b. 1915)

    “Knowledge puffeth up, but charity edifieth. And if any man think that he knoweth any thing, he knoweth nothing yet as he ought to know.”
    —Bible: New Testament 1 Corinthians 8:1-2.