Quotes About Encouragement

What I said to them at half time would be unprintable on the radio.

Songs don't just come out of the air. They take time, but its good fun, too. Maurice gave me encouragement.

Even after I'd published three books and had been writing full-time for twenty years, my father continued to urge me to go to law school.

Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.

Hmmm," my mother said, like she did when I gave her a composition to read and she was going to tell me to take another shot at it.

I tried to cheer her up, and apparently succeeded in some degree, before the walk was over; but in the very act my conscience reproved me, knowing, as I did, that, sooner or later, the tie must be broken, and this was only nourishing false hopes and putting off the evil day.

But you're always a help to me! he said. How? I asked, greatly surprised. By being cheerful.

Cheer up, keep your spirits high, things are bound to get better!

It won't do us or those outside any good if we continue to be as gloomy as we are now. And what would be the point of turning the Secret Annex into a Melancholy Annex?

with its wondrous voice, helps us not to lose heart and to keep telling ourselves, 'Cheer up, keep your spirits high, things are bound to get better!

I'm finally getting optimistic. Now, at last, things are going well!

And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.

It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as possible. All of us lurch and fall, sit in the dirt, are helped to our feet, keep moving, feel like idiots, lose our balance, gain it, help others get back on their feet, and keep going.

This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who help call forth human beings from deep inside hopelessness.

What helps is that we are not all crazy and hopeless on the same day.

this is the work of the Holy Spirit and our operating instructions, to be cooling breezes to sad or worried people, including ourselves, in this sometimes hot stuffy joint [the world].

This is all that restoration requires most of the time, that one person not give up.

You need to find people who laugh gently at themselves, who remind you gently to lighten up.

Awareness is learning to keep yourself company. And then learn to be more compassionate company, as if you were somebody you are fond of and wish to encourage.

God loves you crazily, like I love you, Rae said, like a slightly overweight auntie, who sees only your marvelousness and need.

Teaching] was hard. Some of the kids were needy and vulnerable and depressed, with faces of dubious, aged concern, rumpled foreheads, downcast or shuttered eyes. Some were wild. We did not exclude anyone, because Jesus didn't. On bad days, I could not imagine what he had been thinking. I could always feel Jesus in the room, encouraging us in every way, although maybe he would have stopped short of sharing Doritos with us.

All it takes is one safe person to listen, to hear, to noodge us to start over and not give up.

When you're feeling low, you don't want anyone even to joke that you may be in some kind of astrological strike zone where you'll be for the next seven years. On a bad day you also don't need a lot of advice. You just need a little empathy and affirmation." ~ @ANNELAMOTT

We were saying, This is hard, but not as hard as it was for you here, weighed down by the anchors of so-called reality. So go now, go, unfettered.