On Hope Quotes

We can position ourselves to receive God's promises, but it will take a lot of stretching, moving, breaking and changing!

The Holy Spirit builds on the smooth ground of humility. That's why God will tear you down in order to build you back up.

I not only want to understand God's revelations, I want to be changed by them.

Don't let your plans or goals become more important than yourself, or the ones you care about! :)

I could get through this. I would be strong because I was so close to achieving my dream of having my kids together.

Public servants in this Europe often do their best when they stop caring about whether they'll be fired.

Leaving the familiar for unknown terrain is like a death - and feeling this level of finality should snap one back to life for life has greater meaning in the face of death.

Without courageous action, Hope is a Universal liar.

He says to me, Ranulph, he says... that the past will never come again, but that we must remember that the past is made of the present, and that the present is always here.

Love is something worth suffering for...

I shall not be defined by what I have suffered but how I have endured them.

Suffer" he commanded seductively. "With me...or because of me.

We will never become the people of hope and blessing we're meant to be until we learn how to wake up and pay attention to the glory and pain, beauty and suffering that are in lives all around us.

Bend over backward, do a favor, and give and build confidence in people. It's a time to compliment, support and acknowledge the good things people do.

If someone calls you a failure it's more than likely they feel like one.

Known for leaving, she asked me who I would consider sticking around for. I said, "The one who asked me to and meant it.

When we pour out our miseries, He hears a melody of us needing and desiring what only He can give.

But, darling, I need you to know, you loving me will not heal me. Please realize, I already know that. And I do not expect it to.

Over time our tears will help heal the pain and soothe the hurt.

A burdened heart doesn't equate to a lack of faith. The God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob can heal with a simple command. The burden comes from wondering if that's His will and may it be done.

Two broken people don't make a whole! Without U, there is no us! Lord, I'm so thankful that U r the U in us!

Our prayer is not simply, ‘Dear God, please send me a better job, ’ but, ‘Dear God, enable me to see this situation differently, that this area of apparent lack might be healed inside my mind.

Because you make me want to live. You make me want to grow old with you. You give me hope, and that scares me more than anything else

...to the world you may be one person, but to one person you may be the world’. You’re one of the lucky ones. You’re the world to far more people than you think.

To some of those girls, school will be the highlight of their lives. People like you…people who are beautiful inside and out…those are the ones who will shine in whatever they decide to do. [Alec]

The Codex is our moral code. No one is higher than the law. Those who break the law must be broken.

Now at first you’ll feel a little dizzy, then a little numb, then you won’t feel anything at all.

They all memorized a simple phrase, “Be helpful, be useful, be scarce.

Later, she didn’t remember how she escaped from his grasp, or how she ended up back in her barracks, but at that moment she realized that something had started that night that changed everything.

All those rhythms, all those songs, all those wonderful glorious magnificent voices inside her began to sing.

She drank the bottle.

No, ” Abigail said in a low voice, “but I can save one.

It is time for you to choose, the rope or the spike!

And there you sit, gloating over what you have done, as if you were a martyr or a public benefactor -- as complacent and smug and misunderstood as a princess from the moon forced to herd goats!

Nocturnal with a love for night, I'd stay up to see sunlight...

The forces of justice had finally come to Annawadi. That the beneficiaries were horses was a source of bemusement to Sunil and the road boys.

I was always observing. Even while talking, living, going through every motion, I was watching myself and the situation. That's a writer. Always observing.

Some writers are born. Others learn. I was born a writer but have a lot to learn.

A deeper intimacy with God sharpens our awareness of sin, which causes a stronger need for grace and a freer offering of mercy.

We are going to make mistakes no matter what, so it's better to be strong in faith despite our mistakes than weak in faith because of them.

This secular Leftist denial of human free will is one of the reasons the Left recoils from labeling evil as evil, and (correctly) ascribes talk about good and evil to the religious.

Three kinds of people get talked about: The fascinating, the freaks and the nefarious.

Rumors get started with a kernel of truth

Because some things in life just hurt so much that you need to feel physical pain to start to heal from it.

You’re my true north. No compass would point me in any other direction but to you.

Mags, I don’t know how many more times I will have to say this, but here it goes. You’re amazing, you deserve the best, and I want nothing more than to be whatever you need me to be.

If we truly believe that we are the righteousness of God through Jesus Christ, our actions would begin to reflect that belief.

[T]here are in fact no masses, but only ways of seeing people as masses.

That people you don’t know are worth knowing, that they have something to teach you. That learning about them – that encountering new ideas – doesn’t threaten you, it enriches you. (Celeste Ng)

Disequilibrium is often instigated by the will to power, a sleepless drive in the human personality to control others, to force them to do what one wants, or not to do what one opposes.