Quotes About Hope

And yet, what else could he do but try the next

Me pregunto si llegaré a ser alhun día feliz o si me pasaré el resto de mi vida luchando por sobrevivir. Aunque sobrevivo fabulosamente no quiero quejarme. Preferiría esperar lo peor y tener lo mejor... Maria callas

The things that we mortals see as setbacks are, in truth, simply God's way of redirecting our paths toward Him. And what sometimes seems to be a terrible setback (to us) can always be transformed into a great victory (for Him). After all, no problem is too big for God. Criswell Freeman (the man who helped me write this book)

Because tears look like stars hanging on your eyelashes.

graces. No matter what your future may be, now is not meant to be a time of waiting. Instead, God is teaching you something each step along the way, preparing you to take His hand and walk with Him, trusting that God will lead you to healing.

but consider this: when you bring shards of glass together and shine radiant light through them, you create stained glass. Likewise, God can bring beauty through our scars. He can turn us into living cathedrals. All we need to do is trust in His promise: "Behold, I make all things new" (Rev. 21:5).

Faith is building on what you know is here so you can reach what you know is there

You do the foot work, and leave the results up to God.

You're not always going to be able to see the big picture. But you've got to know that, no matter what, you'll be okay. Keep praying.

You've got to learn to trust Him, Cup. You're not always going to be able to see the big picture.

In the "grain of wheat" metaphor, Jesus insists if we wish to hold on to the throughline to eternity, we have to follow that line through death. We have to imagine death enough to see it not as some utterly aversive event we go away from or around, but instead as something recognizable enough to go through. When we thoughtfully stock our minds with images of death, we give the Spirit of Jesus the raw material to draw mental throughlines from death to resurrection.

Our Not Yet body of glory grows out of our Now body of struggle.

To hang on through loss, I need to hang on to a throughline.

If we maintain our faith in God, love of freedom, and superior global air power, the future looks good.

On the other hand, the Bible contains much that is relevant today, like Noah taking forty days to find a place to park.

I wanted my life to start - but in those rare moments when it seemed like something might actually change, panic shot through me.

Reconciliation: Our Greatest Challenge--Our Only Hope.

Hope for a future … free from oppression and injustice, when a new humanity includes all peoples, languages, tribes, and nations—now exists in the realm of mystery. Only the mystics see and experience it in its fullness.

like it when I hear this process called "montage." It seems to convey the hope that the whole will add up to even more than the sum of its parts. Film is visual music. It's put together with more than logic and announces when it's right. Many a performance can be made or destroyed by what is left in or cut out.

It's hard to believe the old saying that "things happen for a reason" when the things happening to you are god-awful and you just want them to be over with. No matter how I looked at it, I just couldn't wrap my head around the idea that this had happened for some reason that made any sense.

Nada te turbe, nada te'espante; Quien a Dios tiene nada le falta. Nada te turbe, nada te'espante, Solo Dios basta.

All manner of thing shall be well When the tongues of flame are in-folded Into the crowned knot of fire And the fire and the rose are one. —T. S. Eliot, "Little Gidding

Lord, I believe; help Thou mine unbelief.

The shelf held nothing of value and it held everything of value. It was the past they'd both endured and escaped. It was despair and hope. It was life and death.