Quotes About Hope

As John Piper puts it, "For people who are passing through the dark night of the soul, turnaround will come because God brings unwavering lovers of Christ into their lives who do not give up on them."24

When God has abandoned you and the devil is snapping at your heels, what you really need on your side is a bigger devil.

Mindless punishment and super-incarceration have been societal disasters: locking away tens of thousands of young people in hyper-violent prisons, dominated by institutionalized race wars, without any semblance of education, rehabilitation or hope. The real function of the prison system, indeed, is not to safeguard communities, but to warehouse hatred for the day when it returns to the street.

To be elected president, you have to do more than tear down your opponents. You have to give the American people a reason to vote for you - a reason to hope - a reason to believe that under your leadership, America will be better.

You are never a loser until you quit trying.

Be the light in the dark, be the calm in the storm and be at peace while at war.

Think that it's fun, that you're guided, and that all is well. Think that there's time, that life is easy, and that the best is yet to come. Think that the reasons that elude you will one day catch up, that the lessons that have stumped you will one day bring joy, and that the sorrows that have crippled you will soon give you wings. Think that you're important, that you cannot fail, and that happiness always returns. And think that you're beautiful.

Most of the time you don't know how close a dream is to coming true, until after it has.

everything has a reason, there have been no mistakes, love makes everything better, and what doesn't make sense yet one day will.

Always speak of the past, gratefully. Of the future, excitedly.

Why let grief for what "is not" blind you to what "still is and must always be

Eternity promises too much to spend one more moment looking back with regret than is necessary.

Everything works out in the end. If it looks like things aren't working out, it's not the end.

Go for love. Dare to see the greater truths.

If something wonderful happens, chances are astronomically high that it will happen again.

Always, something wonderful is brewing.

As you dream, the stars realign.

It doesn't do you any good to pray in question marks.

Lasse ab von "wie". Klope weiter an Türen und drehe Steine um, aber beharre nicht darauf, hinter welcher Tür oder unter welchem Stein du das Gesuchte findest. Konzentriere dich ausschliesslich auf das Endergebnis.

Don't we already intuitively accept that every dark cloud has a silver lining? And that when you see no such lining, perhaps it's because you have more to learn, not because it isn't there?

Come on. Would loving parents ever give their child a book to read that didn't have a happy ending? No. But they might well advise, "Don't stop reading during the scary parts!" And neither would a "greater you" give yourself the gift of time and space if it wouldn't be all good in the long run, no matter how things may appear midway. So good that no matter what might happen, it would be worth every bump and turn along the way.

Realize that the hows and whys will all make sense soon enough.

May all that you wish for be the least you receive.

Accordingly, evidence appeared to those who believed.