Quotes About Hope

Sometimes God's way of answering prayer is not by removing the pressure, but by increasing your strength to bear it.

If only I could be here alone, without Judith or anyone, she thought with longing. Someday I am going to come back to this place, when there is time just to stand still and look at it. How often she would come back she had no way of foreseeing, nor could she know that never, in the months to come, would the Meadows break the promise they held for her at this moment, a promise of peace and quietness and of comfort for a troubled heart.

The Messiah is not imagination. It's the truth. It is promised.

A sudden joyful hope sprang into Mart's mind.

No I have not asked Jesus to join us. All I hope and long for now is that He will ask me to join Him.

Jesus? she breathed. Into Jesus' face came the old smle with which he had so often looked at the children who crowded around him. It is--all right? she whispered. It is all right, Jesus answered. Do not be afraid.

Deep grief sometimes is almost like a specific location, a coordinate on a map of time. When you are standing in that forest of sorrow, you cannot imagine that you could ever find your way to a better place. But if someone can assure you that they themselves have stood in that same place, and now have moved on, sometimes this will bring hope

God never slams a door in your face without opening a box of Girl Scout cookies.

Faith is belief in what you cannot see or prove or touch. Faith is walking face-first and full-speed into the dark.

The inability to open up to hope is what blocks trust, and blocked trust is the reason for blighted dreams.

And when you sense a faint potentiality for happiness after such dark times you must grab onto the ankles of that happiness and not let go until it drags you face-first out of the dirt - this is not selfishness, but obligation. You were given life; it is your duty to find something beautiful within life no matter how slight.

Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment. (Quoting an old adage)

Everything really is going to be okay. (And if not okay, then at least comic.)

Religion is for those who don't want to go to hell, and spirituality is for those who have already been there.

Sometimes out hearts are broken so new light can get in.

God waited me out.

There's a part of me which has always wanted to hear a man say, Let me take care of you forever, and I have never heard it spoken before. Over the last few years, I'd given up looking for that person, learned how to say this heartening sentence to myself, especially in times of fear. But to hear it from someone else now, from someone who is speaking sincerely...

In a world of disorder and disaster and fraud, sometimes only beauty can be trusted.

I am not an expert at praying, as you know. But can you please help me? I am in desperate need of help. I don't know what to do. I need an answer. Please tell me what to do...

I was a veritable Johnny Appleseed of grand expectations, and all I reaped for my trouble was a harvest of bitter fruit.

There's a wonderful old Italian joke about a poor man who goes to church every day and prays before the statue of a great saint,'Dear saint-please, please, please...give me the grace to win the lottery.' This lament goes on for months. Finally the exasperated statue come to life, looks down at the begging man and says in weary disgust,'My son-please, please, please...buy a ticket.

Maybe the difference between first marriage and second marriage is that the second time at least you know you are gambling.

One must bear what cannot be escaped, she told Alma, as she rubbed clean her face. You will not die of your grief - no more than the rest of us ever have.

We're already separated that's official but there's still a window of hope left open that perhaps someday we could give things another try.