Quotes About Hope

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What is heartbreaking is that there is still beauty in the world.

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Families in crisis have wrongly been labeled dysfunctional families. Families are not the problem—they are the opportunity. When we understand ourselves as the opportunity, we see our world with a new vision. We dare to hope for our dreams to materialize. We imagine once again what it will be like to be happy.

78 percent never have a single relapse. Less than 15 percent have one relapse but not a second. And those with more than one relapse? A whopping 7 percent.

From what Natalie could observe, by middle age, every person's life had rolled some distance downhill, even if it was a very gentle slope, coming to rest at a place of disappointment. Some spheres of an individual's life might have gone spectacularly well but there would always be an obstinate slab of disappointment in another department - a stalled career, inability to have kids, a dismal marriage, whatever.

Disappointment is a misplaced hope. But bitterness will kill you.

When all around seems dead, it is a delusion. Fear has doped us till we no longer see the target changing and moving.

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Depend on God, and the fear will find its right size.

Life was tough, but God was tougher.

Faith would get her through when she had to face tomorrow, but her grief needed the tears to fall. There was healing in those tears.

My faith survived because I realized God didn't want this for us, He never had. I'm passionately looking forward to a new Heaven and Earth where only good exists once more.

God is good, and I love Him. Right now, God is permitting a very hard thing. Why, I don't know, but I still trust Him.

I can't change any of this. 'No. But you're giving up. I can see it happening.' I'm temporarily retreating, Dave. Don't worry. I'll find my sea legs again.

God's been fixing broken people ever since sin came into the world. Give Him time. He's not done. God promises He will work for the good in all things. What happened to you isn't beyond His ability to recover.

God was just. She held on to that knowledge and the hope that the day of justice would eventually arrive.

That's all I'm doing, choosing to trust Jesus even if I don't understand what or why something is happening. Jesus wants you to choose to trust Him again. He won't take that trust you place in Him lightly.

God is our refuge and strength, a very present help in trouble. Psalm 46:1

This world was not designed to die; sin did that. But Jesus has beaten sin, and it gave Him the right to put on the imperishable as those verses describe. I believe the Resurrection is true. Jesus is alive.

I don't want to be alone," she whispered. "You won't be, through any of this." "It feels very alone. Death is like a cloud coming near that shadows and blocks the color from life." "I'll be here, Rae. Whatever you need. And God promised He would never leave you. He meant it. For the rest of eternity you will never be alone.

You let people hope," Sharon said firmly, "because hope is the very strong thread between earth and heaven.

Do you think it was part of some plan, that you got shot so you would end up in that church and discover religion?' Bruce shook his head. 'I got shot because someone was willing to exchange the name of an undercover cop for a lot of cash. Ending up in church--God was just kind enough to make something come out of the disaster that hit my life.

By his wounds, you have been healed' because you have been. Believe that,