Famous Quotes

Fight your battles on your knees.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Dear newlywed wife, somebody out there is determined to shape your view of intimacy and marriage. You get to choose who will shape your opinion; the Author of marriage or offended humans?

~ Ngina Otiende

God has a passion for brand new beginnings.

~ Ngina Otiende

Other people will not always see our worth the way we wish they would. Sometimes our own loved ones won’t be able to compute our true value. That doesn’t mean you are of less value or worth. It means that they’re unable to see you for the amazing wonder that you are and that’s their loss.

~ Stalina Goodwin

What if, in the bigger scheme of things, God put the yearning and desire for our husbands, not so a man could fulfill all of it, but so we could catch a glimpse of what it means to fully and wholly yearn for God?

~ Ngina Otiende

Oh honey, someday a real man is going to make you see stars and you won't even be looking at the sky. Excerpt from Grace Willow's Last Minute Bride

~ Grace Willows

I know nothing about war. But let me tell you what I believe. I think running from responsibility breeds self-loathing and despair. I think people can, and do, rise to the occasion, and even a single person can make an incredible difference. What they need are leaders who believe in them, a belief that gives birth to hope. With hope, people can do remarkable things, amazing things.

~ Michael J. Sullivan

Impossibility, like wineExhilarates the manWho tastes it; PossibilityIs flavoreless.

~ Emily Dickinson

The bird of hope singsPerched on the branches of twilight;Never grieve for anythingFor, the day always follows the night!

~ Neelam Saxena Chandra

Finding ways to appreciate advances without embracing complacency is a delicate task. It involves being hopeful and motivated and keeping eyes on the prize ahead. Saying that everything is fine or that it will never get any better are ways of going nowhere or of making it impossible to go anywhere. Either approach implies that there is no road out or that, if there is, you don’t need to or can’t go down it. You can. We have.

~ Rebecca Solnit

He lifted himself out of the darkness of his fears, into a bright new world of possibility.

~ Scott Stabile

One spiritual writer has observed that human beings are born with two diseases: life, from which we die; and hope, which says the first disease is not terminal. Hope is built into the structure of our personalities, into the depths of our unconscious; it plagues us to the very moment of our death. The critical question is whether hope is self-deception, the ultimate cruelty of a cruel and tricky universe, or whether it is just possibly the imprint of reality.

~ Brennan Manning

She didn't open the envelope until she'd gotten to the bus station and needed to pay for her ticket. He hadn't given her the thousand dollars she'd asked for-he'd given her ten thousand.

~ Ann Brashares

Requiring neither wood nor urns,Inside me is a fire that burns;Advising me to never accept defeat,The blessed fruit of hope it churns!

~ Neelam Saxena Chandra

I want to hear the wind in the trees. Feel the sun warm my back. I want to see birds fly in a sky with no boundaries.

~ Lea Doué

beneath the pain of your fears, wild and ready, lives your truth, the essence of your singular beauty, hoping, waiting for you to set it free.

~ Scott Stabile

It is my sincerest hope to leave this world in better shape than which I found it. Everyone says that. However the distinction I feel that is necessary to make is. I hope to leave this world better in spite of my departure, not because of it.

~ Kay Whitley

He knew his words could not convey the impossible love he felt for her, so he held her stare and hoped (prayed!) she would understand the immensity of it all.

~ Scott Stabile

Do not be sorrow in the storm. Let the joy of Lord be your strength to smile.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

She shot out of her seat, tired of waiting, at last ready to create her future.

~ Scott Stabile

It's hard to believe sometime, but hope never lets you truly stop believing. - Lo

~ Jackson Pearce

Doubt is a delusion.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The heavenly Father is hope to the hopeless.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

He said it was as if Tommy had produced a key which fit a cage in the back of his mind, a cage like his own cell. Only instead of holding a man, that cage held a tiger, and that tiger's name was Hope. Williams produced the key that unlocked the cage and the tiger was out, willy-nilly, to roam his brain.

~ Stephen King

In spite of the horror, in spite of the tragedy, in spite of the weeks of sleepless nights, I'm finally alive. I'm not pretending. I feel real. I'm not playing charades anymore. I wouldn't go back to the way I was for anything. I'm really like a different person. I'm where I am, and I'm making the most of it. I know I'm courageous now. I found out I had it in me to face this. — Barbara

~ Ellen Bass

Choose the Path to Enlightenment over the path of least resistance

~ Brian Coletta

My only Hope is in Jesus Christ.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

It is better to have hope than to be without hope.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Do not fear, have faith.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I wanted freedom in the same way I wanted my next breath: an unspoken but constant desire.

~ Jodi Meadows

It was a look that gave her a tingle, all right, but not in a good way. In that look she saw her silly bloody hopes as twisted and broken as she’d left that Lowlander’s arm, and it was no one’s fault but her own. She shouldn’t have let herself hope, but hopes are like weeds: however often you root them out they keep on springing up.

~ Joe Abercrombie

With hope, we can endure any hardship.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Hope is a gift. Use it wisely.

~ Harley King

He had no money or influence here. The clothes on his back were ragged, his moccasins were worn, and he was skeletally thin from lack of food and walking. But he would sail on a ship bound for England even if he had to scrub the decks to pay his way.He was Reynaud St. Aubyn, the Viscount of Hope, and by God or the devil, he was going home.

~ Elizabeth Hoyt

God is our hope and strength. And hope never disappoints. (Romans 5:5). We can place our confidence in Him without fear.

~ Teresa Schultz

I continuously see myself on an airplane that has unlimited fuel. I go here and there but can't stop. Always flying over my destination. I've come to realize I must jump off with my parachute on of course. That is how I'm viewing my life right now.Once I find that loophole than I've reached my destination to success.

~ Hyrum Yeakley

It seems as you'll never know the rights of it; but that doesn't hinder there being a rights, Master Marner, for all it's dark to you and me.''No,' said Silas, 'no; that doesn't hinder. Since the time the child was sent to me and I've come to love her as myself, I've had light enough to trusten by; and now she says she'll never leave me, I think I shall trusten until I die.

~ George Eliot

Belief isn't simply a thing for fair times and bright days, I think. What is belief- what is faith- if you don't continue in it after failure.

~ Brandon Sanderson

We are worth fighting for,” we both whispered. Giving one another permission, into each other madness.

~ Efrat Cybulkiewicz

Prayer teaches us the grace of persistent effort.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita