The virtue of hope is an orientation of the soul towards a…

“Hope is an orientation, an insistence on wresting wisdom and joy from the endlessly fickle fabric of space and time.”

— Krista Tippett

The theological virtue of hope is the patient and trustful willingness to live without closure, without resolution, and still be content and even happy…

— Richard Rohr

“In a lovely book called On Hope, Josef Pieper explores Thomas Aquinas' theology of hope along these lines: the hopeful person is by definition…

— Alan Jacobs

“Charity is the power of defending that which we know to be indefensible. Hope is the power of being cheerful in circumstances which we…

— G.K. Chesterton

prayer consists of attention. It is the orientation of all the attention of which the soul is capable towards God. The quality of the…

— Simone Weil

Liberals claim to love gays when it allows them to vent their spleen at Republicans. But disagree with liberals and their first response is…

— Ann Coulter

... when I left the stage door and sought my orientation among real people I was in a wilderness of unpredictables in an unchoreographed world.

— Margot Fonteyn

If you tell me I can't understand you because of my color or you can't understand me because of your sexual orientation or she…

— Cleve Jones

The time has come to make the protection of children - all our children - a common cause that can unite us across the…

— Olara Otunnu

You shouldn't face discrimination because of your sexual orientation. That should be illegal.

— Tom Gjelten

The general public have a warped view of the speed at which an investigation proceeds. They like to imagine tense conversations going on behind…

— Ben Aaronovitch

It is in the measure that special methods acknowledge their common core in transcendental method, that norms common to all the sciences will be…

— Bernard Lonergan

You develop an instant global consciousness, a people orientation, an intense dissatisfaction with the state of the world, and a compulsion to do something…

— Edgar Mitchell

Mindfulness develops attention, concentration and the ability to simply be present with little or no future orientation, past orientation or goal orientation—choosing to be…

— Ian Gawler

The great paradox of the civil rights revolution is that instead of enforcing and expanding equality before the law, the revolution created differential rights…

— Paul Craig Roberts