Quotes about Hope

It gets darker and darker, and then Jesus is born." That line came back to me, from out of nowhere, and I decided to practice radical hope, hope in the face of not having a clue.

Only God can put Scripture inside. But reading sacred text can put it on your hearts, and then when your hearts break, the holy words will fall inside.

I was waiting for the kind of solution where God reaches down and touches you with his magic wand and all of a sudden I would be fixed, like a broken toaster oven. But this was not the way it happened. Instead, I got one angstrom unit better, day by day.

Love has bridged the high-rises of despair we were about to fall between. Love has been a penlight in the blackest, bleakest nights. Love has been a wild animal, a poultice, a dinghy, a coat. Love is why we have hope.

Her message was always the same: God loved the world, all evidence to the contrary, and we must not give up on God.

It may be one of those miracles where your heart sinks, because you think it means you have lost. But in surrender you have won. And if it were me, after a moment, I would say, Thanks.

Hospice is the Calvary, Hospice means death is not going to be nearly as bad as you think

You can't logically get from where we were to where we are now. I think that is what they mean by grace.

God makes a way out of no way.

The good news is that God has such low standards, and reaches out to those of us who are often not lovable and offers us a chance to come back in from the storm of drama and toxic thoughts.

God isn't there to take away our suffering or our pain but to fill it with his or her presence

This is a hard planet, and we're a vulnerable species. And all I can do is pray: Help. When