Quotes by American Authors - Page 3181

Paul gives us an astonishing understanding of waiting in the New Testament book of Romans, as rendered by Eugene Peterson, 'Waiting does not diminish us, any more than waiting diminishes a pregnant mother. We are enlarged in the waiting. We, of course, don't see what is enlarging us. But the longer we wait, the larger we become, and the more joyful our expectancy.' With such motivation, we can wait as we sense God is indeed with us, and at work within us, as he was with Mary as the child within her grew.
Luci Shaw
It takes a certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know how things will end and still hope otherwise.
Gayle Forman
Hope is the light in your being which enlightens your heart and makes it ready to sing.
Debasish Mridha
Where there is no hope, there is Christmas. And where there is no Christmas, there is no hope.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Small hopes can grow surprising fruit.
Robert Jordan
Your opponents would love you to believe that it's hopeless, that you have no power, that there's no reason to act, that you can't win. Hope is a gift you don't have to surrender, a power you don't have to throw away.
Rebecca Solnit
I can still choose to be a person who is kind and full of love, a person who extends compassion to her fellow humans and even if I feel like our country is regressing a little, even if I'm embarrassed of our leader I still have control over the kind of person I am.
Ashley Mardell
Hope is a little candle that continues to flicker in the heart in the darkest moments of impossibility.
Debasish Mridha
Hope is the little bird that continues to sing the songs of possibilities in your heart when everything else says to give up.
Debasish Mridha
There was a moment when any hope within me froze solid and I was finally emptied of all energy to fight the cold. And at the very point of that very surrender, when I became convinced that I must bow to a world that would be forever frigid, God cupped the hands of my soul and poured in the warmth of Christmas.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
The only thing worse than unrealized hope is no hope.
Ken Poirot
You'd think that a redheaded boy with glasses who was named Howard and had an up-down walk would have a lot more to wish for than being friends with me. But I admit I felt a smile on my face and hope in my heart, 'cause maybe wishes really do come true. Maybe some wishes just take longer than others.
Barbara O'Connor
Hope shines like a candle in the darkness. Keep the flame alive.
Debasish Mridha
There is such a thing as too much loss. Too much has been taken from you both - taken and taken and taken, until there's nothing left but hope, and you've given that up because it hurts too much. Until you would rather die, or kill, or avoid attachments altogether, than lose one more thing.
N K Jemisin
Hope is the beautiful dream of the soul.
Debasish Mridha
It is better to sing songs of hope than to sing songs of misery.
Debasish Mridha
In all my lives, the only thing I've seen save people from themselves is hope. Hope beyond logic. Hope beyond what the eye can see. Filled with hope, the human spirit is an insatiable force of energy, transcending biology to embrace something eternal. Without hope, the spirit dies and nothing awaits but death.
Terry Moore
The message of Christmas is a message of hope when all other such messages created by men can do nothing more than be hopeful.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
Hope is a bird that sings the songs of possibilities from the deepness of the heart.
Debasish Mridha
Building bridges is the best defence against ignorance.
Aaron Lauritsen
There's more to a person than flesh. Judge others by the sum of their soul and you'll see that beauty is a force of light that radiates from the inside out.
Aaron Lauritsen
Hope just means another world might be possible, not promise, not guaranteed. Hope calls for action; action is impossible without hope.
Rebecca Solnit
She does know Harrison prefers men, right?”“Let her have hope,” I said, smiling to myself.He turned his attention back to me. “Yes. Hope is good. Bianca, I-” He grinned wickedly. “I knew you’d give in sooner or later.” He put his hand on my knee and ran it smoothly up my thigh. “You’re finally going to admit that you love me, aren’t you?”I swatted his hand away. “First of all,” I began, “I don’t love you. I love my family and maybe even Casey and Jessica, but romantic love takes years upon years to develop. So I don’t love you. But I will admit, I’ve thought a lot about you lately and I definitely have feelings for you… feelings other than hatred for the most part. And maybe it’s possible-in the future-that I… could love you.” I hesitated, a little scared of the words that’d just left my mouth. “But I still want to kill you most of the time.
Kody Keplinger
That's what makes heroes so special. You carry the hopes of humanity into the realm of the eternal.
Rick Riordan
Successes are those highlights of life we look back on with a smile. But it's the day to day grind of getting them that defines the laugh lines etched until the end of time. Enjoy each moment along the way
Aaron Lauritsen
I often think of life as a great darkened room with a mammoth-sized tapestry fastened to a stone wall. I believe true peace can be achieved not in viewing the whole tapestry, but in accepting without bitterness those portions we have been afforded the luxury to see.
Chip St. Clair
True hope has no room for delusion.
Jerome Groopman
The hands of man can manufacture many things both penetratingly brilliant and utterly astounding. Yet, despite their amazing dexterity and profound skill they cannot manufacture hope. Such a masterpiece as that is left for the hands of God and a manger crafted by those hands.
Craig D. Lounsbrough
The pages continue to turn, and every day I'm a little older, hopefully a little wiser and a lot more grateful. Do I have regrets? I have a few - but not as many as you might think. If it hadn't been for the darkness, I never would have known the light. In life we all take different paths, some more difficult than others, but in the end, all that matters is whether or not they lead us home.
Richard Paul Evans
It’s the ‘everyday’ experiences we encounter along the journey to who we wanna be that will define who we are when we get there.
Aaron Lauritsen
Hope is one of our central emotions, but we are often at a loss when asked to define it. Many of us confuse hope with optimism, a prevailing attitude that "things turn out for the best." But hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "Think Positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike optimism, is rooted in unalloyed reality. Although there is no uniform definition of hope, I found on that seemed to capture what my patients had taught me. Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye- a path to a better future. Hope acknowledges the significant obstacles and deep pitfalls along that path. True hope has no room for delusion.
Jerome Groopman
There is no such thing as loving a child too much.
Aaron Lauritsen
God is my strength and my defense. When I am weak, he makes me strong. When I am broken, he makes me whole.
Amaka Imani Nkosazana
Without struggle, success has no value.
Aaron Lauritsen
If he's ever loved, if he's even been loved. if he even wants to be. But don't we all want to? Even when you think you don't want to,there's this feeling of waiting in the back of your head. Of waiting for that to happen. To know what it's like and to be swept away.
Katy Evans
If you didn't earn something, it's not worth flaunting.
Aaron Lauritsen
It has been said that sometimes the greatest hope in our lives is just a second chance to do what we should have done right in the first place.
Richard Paul Evans
Travel is costly yes, but it pays dividends too.
Aaron Lauritsen
Explore, Experience, Then Push Beyond.
Aaron Lauritsen
We love our partners for who they are, not for who they are not.
Aaron Lauritsen
At some point, you just gotta forgive the past, your happiness hinges on it.
Aaron Lauritsen
The freedom of the open road is seductive, serendipitous and absolutely liberating.
Aaron Lauritsen
There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.
Aaron Lauritsen
I'm just a broken thing you're familiar with.
Rick Remender
E quindi uscimmo a riveder le stelle.And so we came forth, and once again beheld the stars.
William Styron
The fog may seem thick but the sun will surely pierce through and brighten up the sky. Allow yourself to continue to rest on the wings of God's love and watch yourself learn to soar high.
Kemi Sogunle
Maybe it was impossible. But maybe it wasn't. Like Vikus said, nothing would happen unless you hoped it could. If you had hope, maybe you could find the way to make things change. Because if you thought about it, there were so many reasons to try.
Suzanne Collins
Wishing and trying aren’t faith. True faith must be present in order to give substance to your hope.
Andrew Wommack
New life, new hope, new joy will start when this is given from the heart.
Melody Carlson
The human spirit carries a torch called hope.
Toni Sorenson
Be a team player, not a bandwagon jumper.
Aaron Lauritsen
The highway of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.
Aaron Lauritsen
I'm convinced my heart knew who it belonged to, long before I met her.
Karla Campos
When the well's nearly dry and you're not sure you have the strength to persevere, fill up on love and friendship, then take another step, and then another, until you reach your goal.
Liza M. Wiemer
The high road of grace will get you somewhere a whole lot faster then the freeway of spite.
Aaron Lauritsen
True friends don't come with conditions.
Aaron Lauritsen
From this point forward, you don’t even know how to quit in life.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive
Aaron Lauritsen
Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive
Aaron Lauritsen
Making the choice to exercise compassion is an expression of Love for Humanity and Life itself.
Aberjhani
Lessons from the past create hope for the future and action in the present.
Orrin Woodward