Hope is much more than a ...

Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action.... What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for...as far as that power lies in us.
Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a commitment to action.... What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for...as far as that power lies in us.
 John Polkinghorne

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Effort only fully releases its reward after a person refuses to quit.
Never complain and never explain.
A good plan violently executed now is better than a perfect plan executed next week.
 George S. Patton
Problems are not stop signs, they are guidelines.
 Robert Schuller
Never give up, for that is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
 Harriet Beecher Stowe

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The test of a theory is its ability to cope with all the relevant phenomena, not its a priori 'reasonableness'. The latter would have proved a poor guide in the development of science, which often makes progress by its encounter with the totally unexpected and initially extremely puzzling.
 John Polkinghorne
God didn't produce a ready-made world. The Creator has done something cleverer than this, making a world able to make itself.
 John Polkinghorne
Mathematics is the abstract key which turns the lock of the physical universe.
 John Polkinghorne
The rational transparency and beauty of the universe are surely too remarkable to be treated as just happy accidents.
 John Polkinghorne
Science cannot tell theology how to construct a doctrine of creation, but you can't construct a doctrine of creation without taking account of the age of the universe and the evolutionary character of cosmic history.
 John Polkinghorne