Quotes About Hope

Sometimes it's good to wait. The anticipation makes it more fun when you get there.

Turn to the light. Don't fear the shadow it creates.

The world's bumper sticker reads: Life sucks, and then you die. Perhaps Christian bumper stickers should read: Life sucks, but then you find hope and you can't wait to die.

Prayer may just be the most powerful tool mankind has." ~Blink

The light shines in the darkness, but the darkness cannot understand it

The light had simply and utterly destroyed the darkness.

It was there, beyond the skin of this world, that a cure of ugliness could be found.

Jazz ist für diejenigen, die dabei sein wollen, wenn ein Wunder passiert.

The problem isn't that I've hit rock bottom. The problem is that I haven't.

I think it was Milosz, the Polish poet, who when he lay in a doorway and watched the bullets lifting the cobbles out of the street beside him realised that most poetry is not equipped for life in a world where people actually die. But some is.

How many abused souls—dogs and humans alike—have remained in an unloving place because staying was far less terrifying than leaving?

When she left me I stood out in the thunderstorm, hoping to be destroyed by lightning. It missed, first left, then right.

Te sientes así; con ganas de dejar que tus neumáticos se desinflen, de dejar a los ratones construír un nido en tu silenciador, como si fuera no más que un camión en la maleza, cacareando con pollos o pegajoso con miel o sosteniendo a un frágil anciano en tu regazo mientras contempla el camino, esperando a alguien para saludarlo.

We can be trapped by our past and be unable to see what God has ahead for us when we don't understand how to deal with trauma. We need to understand very clearly that God's purposes for us are always greater than our problems. If we let Him, the Holy Spirit will come alongside and carry the problems that would bury us. But it all takes place through the bitter waters of healing.

Therefore, the Church of the future, if it is to be effective, must become a place of practical grace. It must be a place where hope is the dominant theme, and denial, especially religious pretending, is nowhere is sight.

If the Confederacy succeeded in starting a new country, based on slavery, it would destroy the special hope that the world's millions had vested in America.

The gospel enables you and your children to face the worst in yourselves—your sin, your badness, and your weakness—and still find hope, because grace is powerful.

You keep shooting. You hope it goes in, and you smile.

Spain and England are the best, and of course I dream one day to be there.

I made Fast Car just in my spare time with no real hopes for it at all.

There is in every woman's heart a spark of heavenly fire which lies dormant in the broad daylight of prosperity, but which kindles up and beams and blazes in the dark hour of adversity.

The work completed during the special session was just the beginning. During those six days we lit a spark that will positively impact the lives of our children and grandchildren, but the full fire is yet to come.

I feel people naturally have a brightness. When that is extinguished by circumstances - be it a wrong marriage or a situation that you cannot leave psychologically - there's something about that dying spark that I'm drawn to playing.

Yes, whatever is born, dies, but I thank life for gifting us a Nelson Mandela. He will sparkle in our consciousness for times to come.