Quotes About Hope

In 1984, I turned to theater in the hopes of finding a more direct form of communication between me and my people.

When you say "Yes!" to your dream and do what you truly love to do, you are also transforming the world for the better.

I once feared death. It is said that death begins with the absence of life. And life begins when death is no longer feared. I have stared death in the eye and survived.

He knows the day, the hour, the minute that something in particular needs to happen in our lives. He may not be early, but He's never late.

Seriously, God! Did You have to choose me as the poster child for the single-and-waiting-on-God girl?

why do I struggle with believing God will deliver on the promise of a husband and a family?

Can't You get just ONE GUY to love me? You know this is the position I have been in my entire life. Unloved. Unknown. Not chosen.

I'm so sick of my life. The chapter I want doesn't get written. I'm always stuck in the "wait" chapter.

I've prayed countless prayers to God saying, "Please take this desire away." But He hasn't! I even asked, "Just take the desire away until you're ready to give it to me. Hold it in a box. Duct tape it closed for later because I don't want to desire anything that you don't have for me right now! It hurts too much.

Perhaps opening his heart to the Lord could be the first step in opening his life to a chance at happiness again.

is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in man,'" she read. "'It is better to trust in the Lord than to put confidence in princes.' We do what we can do, but we're only human. Place your trust in God now, and look to Him.

the death of my mother was the thing that made me believe the most deeply in my safety: nothing bad could happen to me, I thought. The worst thing already had.

Accept that this experience taught you something you didn't want to know. Accept that sorrow and strife are part of even a joyful life. Accept that it's going to take a long time for you to get that monster out of your chest. Accept that someday what pains you now will surely pain you less.

I would want things to be different than they were. The wanting was a wilderness and I had to find my own way out of the woods.

Healing is a small and ordinary and very burnt thing. And it's one thing and one thing only: it's doing what you have to do.

A terrible thing happened to you, but you mustn't let it define your life.

nothing bad could happen to me, I thought. The worst thing already had.

Run toward the darkness, sweet peas, and shine.

I prayed to the whole wide universe and hoped that God would be in it, listening to me. I prayed and prayed, and then I faltered. Not because I couldn't find God, but because suddenly I absolutely did: God was there, I realized, and God had no intention of making things happen or not, of saving my mother's life. God was not a granter of wishes. God was a ruthless bitch.

Accept that someday what pains you now will surely pain you less.

Most things will be okay eventually, but not everything will be. Sometimes you'll put up a good fight and lose. Sometimes you'll hold on really hard and realize there is no choice but to let go. Acceptance is a small, quiet room.

within the chaos of our shame and disappointment and rage there is meaning, and within that meaning is the possibility of rescue.

My grief is tremendous but my love is bigger.

Walk without a stick into the darkest woods. Believe that the fairy tale is true.