Quotes About Hope

Such a liberating transformation in and against Lockdown America is "spectral," to use a term from my previous writings.[5] By that I mean that the counter-theatric to state terror makes demands. It is a spectral haunting of the suffering present. It makes demands and cultivates expectations that often make repressive powers tremble. For the repressed, though, this specter is laden with promise and hope. What does this spectral liberation look like?

The executed God is a force of life that is greater than the assemblage of imperial powers and foments necessary resistance and hope for people today.

At its best, the expression crucified God reminds us that the power of all life, "God," faces and suffers the worst that a creature can endure and emerges with newfound power, strength, and hope. What

What is sacralized or made holy is not suffering but the facing, endurance of suffering, the resisting it with hope and life.

As one widow put it to me, "Strength doesn't mean being able to stand up to anything, but being able to crawl on your belly a long, long time before you can stand up again.

I'm not here to discuss the past... I'm here to be positive.

Many people in the world see events as they are; leaders are different in that they see things that could be. And the future they see is always a better version of the present. We believe we can make a difference; we think we can make the world, or at least our part of it, better. Leaders are generally more optimistic than nonleaders.

It's common in the middle of a drought . . . to forget that rain is the norm. Or in the middle of a flood to forget that floods rarely happen. Or when bad news comes from the doctor to forget that, for most of us, this comes after many years of relatively good health.

I want to be part of a church that, as the full-orbed body of Christ, reflects the radiant beauty and attractiveness of God's love, grace, forgiveness, salvation, and hope, for this life and for an eternity of fellowship together with one another as well as with him!

Given the world, given the situation, the question that remains is whether having children is a statement of hope, an insistence on the beauty and meaningfulness and basic worth of being here, or an act of human sacrifice.

I dreamed big," she recalled. "Why not?

And I was reminded once again how a song really can change the world.

In life things often go wrong, and the future rarely happens the way you think it will.

Gone are the days when the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. declared: "I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin, but by the content of their character."48

The afterlife can be an adventure if one can supersede the gloom and sidestep the pitfalls.

You don't have to make any decisions right now," Colleen says. "But I'll tell you this. There's life after marriage." ~Excerpt from "Mad Dog Justice

Mark Rubinstein

She fell upward into brilliance, where all suffering was released.

Salvation will not come from the legislators. Salvation will not come from the military. If there is any salvation, it will come from the people. Jayaprakash Narayan

Yes, we shall win in the end; but the road will be long and red with monstrous martyrdoms." Oscar Wilde, 1897, on his release from Reading Gaol

I lost my father this past year, and the word feels right because I keep looking for him. As if he were misplaced. As if he could just turn up, like a sock or a set of keys.

The future is always beginning now.

For soon the leaves, Having gone black, would fall, and the annulling snow Would pillow the walk, and we, with shovels in hand, would meet, Bow, and scrape the sidewalk clean. What else would there be This late in the day for us but desire to make amends And start again, the sun's compassion as it disappears.

I believe That someone is already there and is waiting For the pale appearance of another.