Quotes about Hope

I want a pain that has a beginning and an end, not one that goes on forever and cuts all the way to the bone.

Sometimes life goes by in a trickle and sometimes life goes by in a flood. It's in those rainy seasons you find out how well you can swim.

Prayers are answered in ways we don't choose. The river of grace bubbles up in unexpected places.

But sometimes it's the things that require a leap of faith that we need to believe in most of all.

Don't borrow trouble from round the bend,

Be patient, Katie. Everything doesn't have to work itself out today.

You know how it is. The storms come and it's water and wind as far as the eye can see for a bit. But winds calm and the waters drain. We find our feet again, and the ground under us sprouts a new crop of seed. That is always the way of it. I don't suppose this storm will be any different.

They showed me what a stable life could look like. If they hadn't bothered, how would I have even known there was another way to live? You can't aspire to something you've never seen.

You got to remember that when things are out of our hands, that doesn't mean they're not in God's.

Holding a worn Bible, he read from Paul's letter to the Corinthians about the true nature of love - what it is, and what it is not. It is not boastful, not proud, not self-seeking, not easily angered. It does not hold a grudge. It is patient and kind. It protects, trusts, hopes, perseveres, and never fails, even when we turn away from it. Love believes, and believes, and believes, even when it has been disappointed, and wounded, and thwarted by the weaknesses of the human soul.

Even when we are lost, God has not lost us.

Through one lighthouse, you guide many ships. Iola's words whispered in my mind. Was she thinking of the