Quotes About Hope

Dodge, be honest. It's not close to over. You've been nursing this wound for nearly ten years, working it off over there in Afghanistan, trying to forget the girl you've loved since you were ten. There's no way this is over. There is so much bitterness sitting in your heart you can't even see it. But maybe that's why God brought you back - for her. And to set you free from all that darkness.

Apart from you, I have no good thing,' and that God fills him with joy in His presence. It helps me remember that I'm not alone.

And I realized that God hadn't abandoned me. I'd simply stopped trusting him. I thought my life had to be one way to be happy—but maybe . . ." He shook his head. "Maybe there is more for me. For us.

She never considered that her mother's leaving could cause her to be stuck in a sort of darkness, afraid to move. Yeah, she needed the sunrise like she needed breath.

And maybe that was the reason God sent him up there-to take a good look at himself, at the raw, brutal facts, and remind him that whatever line he cut behind him, grace always lay before him. A pristine, white, unblemished future.

Hope is the one thing that we have to give when the world is at its darkest.

God always answers. It's just a matter of how.

And hello, maybe you're exactly where you are supposed to be...maybe God used your issues to give you exactly what you wanted.

What if your story is better than you imagined and by holding on, you're only creating the ending you can see?...God has a bigger plan for you than you do for yourself.

That's not the answer. We don't stop living life just because bad things can, or will, happen. We just keep going forward, trusting in God's plan for us, even if bad things happen. God is still there, still in control. Still saving us. Still protecting us.

The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning. I say to myself, "The Lord is my inheritance; therefore, I will hope in Him!

He could not know that thoughts are not things you can give or not give. Thoughts are thrust upon you. You can only hope that thoughts that you don't want will tire of you at some point and flutter away.

Sometimes the expectation is better than the fulfillment.

Love is the only true constant in a fragile world.

Don't borrow tomorrow's burdens, my gram used to say.

But heaven seems a place where truth cannot hurt. Here, the truth can be devastating.

we are—all of us—just imperfect people on a flawed planet who are trying to hold on to what is good and lovely and right.

I can't imagine God keeping mothers from their children in that beautiful place

I smiled at this because some days I feel as though I've already lived several lifetimes and others as though I haven't lived any kind of life at all, that I'm still waiting for it to start. Or waiting for it to start over.

He's more than just the baby she found all those years ago. He's the proof that out of a great pile of ashes you can still find something that the fire didn't take.

It's funny how just having an unobstructed view of the possible future can make you think you're capable of achieving anything.

We only see a little bit of our stories at a time, and the hard parts remind us too harshly that we're fragile and flawed. But it isn't all hard. Your story isn't all hard parts. Some of it is incredibly beautiful.

I find that I am also shedding tears of happiness and relief that something good can still happen in this upside-down world.

And though it can be painfully difficult, it can also be unspeakably wonderful.