Ye are saved by hope.
The ground and basis of all hope whatsoever is God.

It is his good providence and redemptive love in Jesus Christ that make us optimists.
Hope is not within the scope of our wisdom or culture or skill; and hope is not in our health or tool or treasure.

We journey into an unknown future.

It is not given to us to know what a day or an hour of the new year may bring forth.

How impotent are the wisest and strongest in the hour when we hear the sound of the ocean and in darkness ford the deep and dangerous river, beyond which is high and eternal noon.