dreams on Future

Disturb us, Lord, when we are too pleased with ourselves; when our dreams have come true because we dreamed too little; when we arrived safely because we sailed too close to the shore. Disturb us, Lo...

Honoré de Balzac would eventually become a celebrated writer in post-Napoleonic France. He was renowned for his complex characters and realistic writing style. Like most young artists, de Balzac lived...

When the LORD restored the fortunes of Zion, we were like those who dream. Then our mouth was filled with laughter, and our tongue with shouts of joy; then it was said among the nations, “The LORD ha...

Each man should frame life so that at some future hour fact and his dreaming meet.

Disturb us, Lord, to dare more boldly, to venture on wider seas where storms will show your mastery; where losing sight of land, we shall find the stars. We ask you to push back the horizons of our ho...

Holy Comforter,  You are near when my dream dies.  You are near the brokenhearted.  Thanks be to you for a new dream and a future beyond my imagining. Maker of Miracle,  You are near when I cannot se...

The thrust of the parables is to subvert the distorted myths in which people live their lives. To understand what we mean by “living in a myth” just think of a couple of our own contemporary myths. Ta...

Sometimes, of course, the sense of God with us becomes much more distinct. My oldest brother, J. I. Willard, served for over thirty years as a minister under the blessing of God. But his entry into th...

Dreams are today's answers to tomorrow's questions.

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.

When we were young, we said, ‘This is what I am going to do with my life.’ When we grew old, we said, ‘What happened to the dream?’

Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.

Dreams are true while they last, and do we not live in dreams?

We care more for our possessions with which we hope to make our way in the world than with our thoughts and dreams which tell us who we are in the world.

“We walk away from our dreams afraid that we may fail, or worse yet, afraid we may succeed.”

Dying man couldn't make up his mind which place to go to — both have their advantages, "heaven for climate, hell for company!" (for contrast)

How many of our daydreams would darken into nightmares if there seemed any danger of their coming true!

The term “American Dream” was first used by James Truslow Adams in 1931 in his book The Epic of America. There he described it as “a dream of social order in which each man and each woman shall be abl...

The boy gathers materials for a temple, and then when he is thirty, concludes to build a woodshed.

Whatever you can do or dream you can, begin it. Boldness has genius, power and magic in it!

Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

You see things; and you say, “Why?” But I dream things that never were; and I say, “Why not?”

USA Today published a report in 2014 that put a price tag on the American Dream: $130,000 a year, which includes a nice six-figure salary, luxury vacations, college savings, and retirement.

When we’re chasing our dreams, all the turbulence we face shouldn’t scare us into pulling back, though. The shaking, jerking, and rattling in our lives are telling us we’re getting close to the breakt...

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars.

Nothing happens unless first we dream.

One of the seductions that continues to bedevil Christian obedience is the construction of utopias, whether in fact or fantasy, ideal places where we can live the good and blessed and righteous life w...

Every great dream begins with a dreamer. Always remember, you have within you the strength, the patience, and the passion to reach for the stars to change the world.

We grew up founding our dreams on the infinite promise of American advertising. I still believe that one can learn to play the piano by mail and that mud will give you a perfect complexion.

I’m sick of following my dreams, man. I’m just going to ask where they’re going and hook up with ’em later.