Quotes About Hope

You must tell him not to worry so much," her mother said. "What is meant to be will be." "I know.I'm sure he does as well, Tomally, but sometimes the future feels so far away," Freya said. "Then focus on now," Anna said. "Right now you're doing something fun with me.

Your childhood may have been lonely, but your future won't be.

We are not promised a pain-free life but are given the tools to survive: God and people. It is enough.

If understood, believed, and lived out, God's plan would naturally place Christians at the epicenter of their communities, like hope magnets, like soft places to fall, like living sanctuaries. We'd be coveted neighbors and trusted advocates, friends to all and enemies of none. Our reputation would precede us, and we would be such a joy to the world.

We are never defeated, not even when all the evidence appears to the contrary. If you are still breathing, there is always tomorrow, and it can always be new. You don't have to be who you were.

Flatten your feet, because nothing in your life is too dead for resurrection.

No one wants more for our kids than God (or even knows what that "more" looks like),

lead, even if we don't see results for five years, ten years, or until the other side of this life. Because no matter what their spiritual futures contain—the new trends, new kind of church, new worldview, new systems—Jesus will remain. He is the only constant, the only Savior that held through the ages. Jesus is the best marker that exists, so let's raise Him high.

I want to live gratefully, humbly, hopefully.

It can be difficult to envision a new start but impossible to deny one.

Guilt is not Jesus' medium. He is battling for global redemption right now; His objective hardly includes huddling in the corner with us, rehashing our shame again. He finished that discussion on the cross. Plus, there's no time for that.

You are 2 Corinthians 4, because although this darkness pressed you so hard, it did not crush you. Perhaps it struck you down, but look at you: You are not destroyed. You see that in the light. You are still standing. If you are still breathing, there is still hope.

What is good for the Kingdom is good for us all.

We can't deliver folks from their pits, but we can sure get in there with them until God does.

If God is really at the center of things and God's good future is the most certain reality, then the truly realistic course of action is to buck the dominant consequentialist ethic of our age - which says that we should act only if our action will most likely bring about good consequences - and simply, because we are people who embody the virtue of hope, do the right thing.

Lean into love and away from fear.

You are powerful. You are loved. You are surrounded by miracles.

Worrying is praying for stuff you don't want.

Life often turns to shit before it turns to shinola.

so aptly put it, "One does not discover new lands without consenting to lose sight of the shore for a very long time." This is about believing that we live in a loving, kind and abundant Universe instead of one that's petty, mean, and likes other people more than it likes you. This is about your faith being greater than your fear.

The moment you have the audacity to start believing in the not-yet seen, your reality will begin to shift.

Life is but a dream. Don't turn it into a nightmare.

Even if it seems impossible, you have to have faith anyway, and the second you stop believing, you pop the bubble and stop attracting the magic in your life. The

Forgiveness means giving up all hope for a better past. —Lily Tomlin; actress, writer, comedienne, absurdist