Quotes About Hope

The sick individual cannot simply shrug it off, pull out of it, or slow down mentally. While God certainly can pick up the pieces and put them together in a new way, this can happen only if the depressed brain makes it through an episode to see again life among the living.

Suffering is not eliminated by the resurrection but transformed by it.

It is not like cancer, where there is hope at least of cutting out afflicted parts of the body in hopes of eradicating the disease. In mental illnesses, the symptoms plague the whole body and mind equally. I am not necessarily sad when I am depressed. I am not necessarily "down." Sometimes I just have a gnawing, overwhelming sense of grief, with no identifiable cause. I grieve as though my loved ones were dead. I imagine their funerals. I feel completely alone and isolated.

Yet human love, such as that of my husband, can certainly be a conduit for divine love, even for those who do not recognize love's true source. If it is the love of God that we see in the face of Christ Jesus that is promised to pull us through, a love that bears it out to the edge of doom even for the ugly and unlovable such as we are, then the statement that love heals depression is in fact the only light that shines in the dark tunnel.

Someday a sentence will come to me, a magic sentence that will undo all that is wrong and make everything right. But until that sentence comes, I say nothing.

Kathryn Hughes

Her optimism flew high, not only for her eventual cure of which she was sure, but for everything that would happen to her henceforth. That too, she knew was a characteristic of the tubercular - the very quality , in fact, which made them such interesting patients.

God does not patch up the old life, or make certain repairs on the old life; He gives a new life, through the new birth.

And if you can't imagine, nothing will ever happen.

Don't grieve. Anything you lose comes round in another form. —Rumi (Jalal ad-Din)

You shouldn't think that she might not return, but Sinead, if something did happen to her, you all would make it. Your family has a support system in each other like nothing I've ever seen before.

Mona Mincheon

If you want the rainbow, you have to put up with the rain.

His hope wasn't lost, it was buried, and somehow Prudence Ryland made that old grave seem much more shallow than it once was.

to her Christ was actual and real, and for those prepared to perceive this reality suffering need be neither senseless nor solitary

The communist authorities told Mother Teresa that they had no poor in China, because in China the government looked after the poor, whereupon Mother Teresa informed them that she was delighted to hear that they had no poor but that she thought perhaps there might be some people who were disheartened and in need of a little encouragement. She and her Sisters would like to bring hope to the discouraged. That much the Chinese government was prepared to allow them to do.

I don't know why I'm always surprised when God does these things. He is so lavish in His love; it takes my breath away. It really does. Just when we think something has ended, He always shows us a new beginning.

I think sometimes that God's favorite word is surprise!

Rain makes the sun shine brighter.

All our dreams can come true if we have the courage to pursue them. - Walt Disney

Dream as if you'll live forever. Live as if you'll die today.

The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain. - Dolly Parton Either

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain. - Vivian Greene

Life is not about waiting for the storms to pass. It's about learning how to dance in the rain.