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We're all a part of this world, and it's up to us to make this one chance at living - living worth while. But the only way to do that is by doing it together.
— Robert Vanleeuwen
The train brings out some of the best and the worst memories of my life. I like to watch the train. It makes me sad but gives hope as well. It connects me to my family, which I abandoned many years ago. I fled away from my family and home by a train only.
— Ravi Ranjan Goswami
Devotion to material possession, control or power; is the sole reason for hate. Devotion to the heart ... the sole reason for love.
— Robert Vanleeuwen
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
Hope is a little candle that continues to flicker in the heart in the darkest moments of impossibility.
— Debasish Mridha
Hope is an all seeing eye that triangles the eternal humbleness in our existence. Hope is what makes us smile through our unwavering faith. When we hope, we organize our details to become conscious citizens of the world.
— Luis Enrique Cavazos, The Five Virtues That Awaken Your Life
It is thus that man, with fervent imagination, can endue the rough stone with loveliness, forge the mis-shapen metal into a likeness of all that wins our hearts by exceeding beauty, and breathe into a dissonant trump soul-melting harmonies. The mind of man—that mystery, which may lend arms against itself, teaching vain lessons of material philosophy, but which, in the very act, shows its power to play with all created things, adding the sweetness of its own essence to the sweetest, taking its ugliness from the deformed.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck
Youth, elastic and bright, disdains to be compelled. When conquered, from its very chains it forges implements for freedom; it alights from one baffled flight, only again to soar on untired wing towards some other aim. Previous defeat is made the bridge to pass the tide to another shore; and, if that break down, its fragments become stepping stones. It will feed upon despair, and call it a medicine which is to renovate its dying hopes.
— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley, The Fortunes of Perkin Warbeck
Mungkin kerana manusia terlalu lemah untuk menghadapi realiti, maka kita bergantung kepada harapan.
— Saharil Hasrin Sanin, Dentang
My grief were thoroughly weighed, and my calamity laid in the balances together! For now it would be heavier than the sand of the desert.
— Compton Gage
What is my strength, that I should hope? Is my strength the strength of stone? Or is my flesh of brass? Is not my help in me.
— Compton Gage
Though dead is promised to me, when will I slumber, deep? Is there not an appointed time to man upon earth? Are not his days also like the days of an hireling? As a servant earnestly desires the shadow, and as an hireling looks for the reward of his work: So am I made to possess months of vanity, and wearisome nights are appointed to me.
— Compton Gage
Wherefore is light given to him that is in misery, And life unto the bitter in soul; Which long for death, but it cometh not; And dig for it more than for hid treasures; Which rejoice exceedingly, and are glad, when they can find the grave?
— Compton Gage
One generation passes away, and another generation cometh forth: but the earth abides for ever.
— Compton Gage
I wondered: what happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?
— Madeleine Thien, Do Not Say We Have Nothing
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
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, Hope in the Dark
the opening,the breaking,the falling apartis always so quick.the hurting,the healing,the putting back togetheris always too long.
— AVA., you are safe here.
Small hopes can grow surprising fruit.
— Robert Jordan, Knife of Dreams
i can't hold onto love.i'm not gentle enough.i always end upcrushing the thingin between my fingertips.
— AVA., you are safe here.
O, weary angels, don’t look at me with those eyes.If that is your state then what of our cries?What can I tell you of goodness that you don’t already know?What can I tell you of faith,of hope and lovethat you yourselves bestow?O, angels, don’t pluck another feather,this isn’t the sky, it’s just the weather.Please, angels, try.We are one all together.Look up and listen, I’ll say it once and then put down my pen:We are sorry for our ignoranceand even though we are worldly,it might happen again.We are sorry for your wearinessand even though you aren’t worldly,we are no more than human.
— Kamand Kojouri
What happens when a hundred thousand people memorize the same poem? Does anything change?
— Madeleine Thien
Now is not the time for bigots and racists. No time for sexists and homophobes. Now, more than ever, is the time for ARTISTS. It’s time for us to rise above and to create. To show humanity. To spread hope. We must prevent society from destroying itself, from losing its way. Now is the time for love.
— Kamand Kojouri
When hope turns dark, I will bring the sun to light it, I shall guide, protect thee, For I am the human spirit.Poem: God’s Dream, in ‘Chameleon Lights
— Ayushman Jamwal
we get brave.we move.we believe.we keep going.
— Ava, You Are Safe Here.
everything i know about loveis that it hurtsand is almost always never returnedthe way you want it to.but i have hopebecause i do not know everything.
— AVA., you are safe here.
We refuse to despair of mankind. Without having the unreasonable ambition to save men, we still want to serve them.
— Albert Camus, The Plague
If a person takes comfort in his or her faith upon divinity in times of distress, then who the hell am I to say, that the person is delusional.
— Abhijit Naskar
you giver of light.you lover of love.you beautifulbeautifulhuman being you.
— Ava, You Are Safe Here.
Most times and in most circumstances, what hinders real progress is never anything big, but the small things we least regard that impede real thinking and action for progress!
— Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
Where there is no hope, there is Christmas. And where there is no Christmas, there is no hope.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Hope is the light in your being which enlightens your heart and makes it ready to sing.
— Debasish Mridha
Hope is not undeniable
—  but it's always there. Hope is not invincible
I hope every night is stunning where you are. In my words, you are a legend.
— Maria Elena, Eternal Youth
Don't strive to be beautiful from the outside, instead, strive to be beautiful from the inside, Surface beauty will fade through time & age, beauty from the heart, however, never will!
— Emily Eaton (Me)
It is currently said that hope goes with youth, and lends to youth its wings of a butterfly; but I fancy that hope is the last gift given to man, and the only gift not given to youth. Youth is pre-eminently the period in which a man can be lyric, fanatical, poetic; but youth is the period in which a man can be hopeless. The end of every episode is the end of the world. But the power of hoping through everything, the knowledge that the soul survives its adventures, that great inspiration comes to the middle-aged; God has kept that good wine until not. It is from the backs of the elderly gentlemen that the wings of the butterfly should burst.
— G.K. Chesterton, Charles Dickens: A Critical Study
It takes a certain kind of naiveté, or perhaps just stupidity, to know how things will end and still hope otherwise.
— Gayle Forman, Just One Year
What do you suppose,' Aedion breathed, staring into the darkness, 'the people on other continents, across all those seas, think of us? Do you think they hate us or pity us for what we do to each other? Perhaps it's just as bad there. Perhaps it's worse. But to do what I have to, to get through it... I have to believe it's better. Somewhere, it's better than this.
— サラ・J・マース
Wisdom warns against desire, but there is power in wanting, power that can fuel the will and keep lit that precious torch, hope.
— Eugene Utley
When we dare to hope, we create more hope in the world.
— Kennedy Odede, Find Me Unafraid: Love, Loss, and Hope in an African Slum
Religion is what gives a person hope to keep walking even in the darkest times.
— Abhijit Naskar
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
The past is with me; the present is here. The future is unmapped and changeable. Ours for the imagining: spreading out before us. Sunlight filled, deep blue, and the darkness.
— Cath Crowley, Words in Deep Blue
But just because something’s been damaged doesn’t mean it’s ruined.
— Claudia Gray, A Million Worlds with You
The girl was a gypsy before an illness took control of her legs, now she watches in awe the world pass by whilst stillness teaches her about inner strength.
— Nikki Rowe
There is a certain delightful sort of hope which the introvert can receive only by having company over...the hope that they will leave soon.
— Criss Jami
She was always fighting a battle but her smile would never tell you so.
— Nikki Rowe
Scars, whether physical or emotional, could be not just a representation of survival but also a story of hope.
— Jennifer L. Armentrout, Fire In You
The only path wide enough for us all is love.
— Kamand Kojouri
Hope is the hardest love we carry.
— Jane Hirshfield, The Lives of the Heart
In my desperation, I have finally discovered that the only way that I can begin to fill the gaping hole within me is to be thankful for what’s there, and not angry for what’s not.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
If I have never had, or worse yet, I have lost the conviction that life (despite all of the blows it wields and the savagery that it spawns) is nonetheless an incalculable privilege, I will have in that single loss forfeited the whole of my life and effectively wiped out any hope that I can or will do anything other than exist.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Breathe in, breathe out. Over and over again.Just to prove a broken heart can't really kill you.
— Kelley York, Suicide Watch
I can’t cure anyone. I can’t guarantee they will heal. I can only tell them my story, remind them that they are not alone in their journey and offer a glimmer of hope for healing.
— Sharon E. Rainey, The Best Part of My Day Healing Journal
This I would wish, that there was no time or sleep. No more past, or future, and everything we did was good the first time, for the day. Without the need of looking back to learn from the past, and no future to hope for the better. No more tiredness, or having a need to dream, and no nightmares to fear. If there was a second time, this is how I would like to start over.
— Anthony Liccione
Life is like a tree, even if it is not always green, it still is colourful and beautiful.
— Zain Baloch
The world is broken he said, how will you fix it? I don't think anyone can fix it but we can teach ourselves & eachother to focus on the good and the important and maybe little by little this place won't feel so heavy.
— Nikki Rowe
Hope is possibly the only inexhaustible resource on earth.
— Martina Boone, Illusion
Sometimes when we find love we pretend it away, or ignore it, or tell ourselves we're imagining it. Because it's the most painful kind of hope there is. By indifference . By death.
— Leigh Bardugo
With every step we take we have a choice to make. Our choices determine our actions. Our actions determine who we are.
— Randall Marr
You can't enjoy sipping of success without first enduring failure's fire
— Phillip Gary Smith, 300-Mile Man: Tuscobia, Arrowhead, Actif Epica
Life isn't about what you achieve but the emotions you get out of it all.
— Chloe Huang
it takes hope and courage to keep fighting even when the world gives up
— Ardour
it takes hope and courage to keep fighting even after the world has given up.
— Ardour
a spark begins a bonfire...be that spark".
— Randall Marr
We live our lives with hope, intentions, and actions. Without hope, there will be no intention. Without intention, there will be no action.
— Debasish Mridha
Make hope a way toward optimism
—  make optimism a way of life.
We are born with hope to dream and love to live.
— Debasish Mridha
Our imagination and hope become a reality if we have the courage to believe and take action to realize them.
— Debasish Mridha
Permit no one to define you by your mistakes or your past
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
if man's life value for women and if she need man,believe me she can not Broke his swear never in any situation,in any condition.
— Mohammed Zaki Ansari, Zaki's Save Me
Anticipation lifts the heart. Desire is created to be fulfilled - perhaps not all at once, more likely in slow stages. Isaiah uttered his prophetic words about the renewal of the natural Creation into a wilderness of spiritual barrenness and thirst. For him, and for many other Old Testament seers, the vacuum of dry indifference into which he spoke was not yet a place of fulfillment. Yet the promise of God through this human mouthpiece (and the word "promise" always holds a kind of certainty) was verdant with hope, a kind of greenness and glory. A softening of hard-heartedness, a lively expectation, would herald the coming of Messiah. And once again, in this season of Advent, the same promise for the same Anointed One is coming closer.
— Luci Shaw
I guess this is a message for those of you who contemplate permanent solutions to temporary problems. You never know what could be coming in the future. There is so much music you've yet to hear.
— Hannah Hart, Buffering: Unshared Tales of a Life Fully Loaded
So odd a pair, she and he. A duet in code and electron. Age and youth and cynicism and hope. He is quicker than her - more learned by far. But she. She is unafraid. Too young to know failure and the fear it brings. She takes him places he would not have explored by himself.She is catalyst. She is chaos. I can see why he loves her.
— Jay Kristoff, Illuminae
... back then the sky seemed so vast. And now the sky above me... is low, and narrow, and heavy.
— Inio Asano, Solanin
Let it shine, the light in you. Oh, and that's delighting me! Various colors shining through. Elated, it fills my soul with ecstasy.
— Ana Claudia Antunes, A-Z of Happiness: Tips for Living and Breaking Through the Chain that Separates You from Getting That Dream Job
But when you're concerned that the miserable, boring wasteland in front of you might stretch all the way into forever, not knowing feels strangely hope-like.
— Allie Brosh, Hyperbole and a Half: Unfortunate Situations, Flawed Coping Mechanisms, Mayhem, and Other Things That Happened
Is there more to see?" Brixton asks. "No. Just a long walk back to hope.
— D.R. Hedge, The Geri Rogue
see chains on another person and be glad they are not your own--such was the good fortune permitted colored people, defined by how much worse it could be at any moment.
— Colson Whitehead, The Underground Railroad
People referred to the symbolism of the empty Cross more than once on its journey. It would seem obviously to point to our faith in Jesus’ resurrection. It’s not quite so simple though. The Cross is bare, but in and of itself the empty Cross does not point directly to the Resurrection. It says only that the body of Jesus was removed from the Cross. If a crucifix is a symbol of Good Friday, then it is the image of the empty tomb that speaks more directly of Easter and resurrection. The empty Cross is a symbol of Holy Saturday. It’s an indicator of the reality of Jesus’ death, of His sharing in our mortal coil. At the same time, the empty Cross is an implicit sign of impending resurrection, and it tells us that the Cross is not only a symbol of hatred, violence and inhumanity: it says that the Cross is about something more.The empty Cross also tells us not to jump too quickly to resurrection, as if the Resurrection were a trump card that somehow absolves us from suffering. The Resurrection is not a divine ‘get-out-of-jail free’ card that immunises people from pain, suffering or death. To jump too quickly to the Resurrection runs the risk of trivialising people’s pain and seemingly mapping out a way through suffering that reduces the reality of having to live in pain and endure it at times. For people grieving, introducing the message of the Resurrection too quickly cheapens or nullifies their sense of loss. The empty Cross reminds us that we cannot avoid suffering and death. At the same time, the empty Cross tells us that, because of Jesus’ death, the meaning of pain, suffering and our own death has changed, that these are not all-crushing or definitive. The empty Cross says that the way through to resurrection must always break in from without as something new, that it cannot be taken hold of in advance of suffering or seized as a panacea to pain. In other words, the empty Cross is a sign of hope. It tells us that the new life of God surprises us, comes at a moment we cannot expect, and reminds us that experiences of pain, grief and dying are suffused with the presence of Christ, the One Who was crucified and is now risen.
— Chris Ryan MGL, In The Light Of The Cross: Reflections On The Australian Journey Of The World Youth Day Cross And Icon
Everybody wants to know why we're here, so we search for that answer. We want to know who we belong to so we search for those people and all the while God is whispering, 'Here I am.
— Donna VanLiere, The Christmas Town
Brace for the worst, hope for the best
— Constance Roberts, Sigil in Shadow
But what if hope had a threshold? What if there was a limit to it? What if each of us was only given a certain amount and mine was used up?
— Jennifer Niven, American Blonde
Some things may never change but other things can be so completely different that they make the things that don't change bearable.
— Donna VanLiere, The Christmas Town
I Love the Smell of Success in the Shadows of Failure.~Ayyaz Ameer Meo
— Ayyaz Ameer Mayo
The strewn and tangled wreckage that litters our lives is the precious raw material from which great beginnings are forged.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
What they want, of course, isn't what you can give them. What you're selling is the hope you can.
— Rosamund Hodge, Bright Smoke, Cold Fire
A garden is made of hope.
— W.S. Merwin, What Is a Garden?
I think I’m getting a notion of how to do this. O.K., a carnival works because people pay to feel amazed and scared. They can nibble around a midway getting amazed here and scared there, or both. And do you know what else? Hope. Hope they’ll win a prize, break the jackpot, meet a girl, hit a bull’s-eye in front of their buddies. In a carnival you call it luck or chance, but it’s the same as hope. Now hope is a good feeling that needs risk to work. How good it is depends on how big the risk is if what you hope doesn’t happen. You hope your old auntie croaks and leaves you a carload of shekels, but she might leave them to her cat. You might not hit the target or win the stuffed dog, you might lose your money and look like a fool. You don’t get the surge without the risk. Well. Religion works the same way. The only difference is that it’s more amazing than even Chick or the twins. And it’s a whole lot scarier than the Roll-a-plane or the Screamer, or any simp twister. This scare stuff laps over into the hope department too. The hope you get from religion is a three-ring, all-star hope because the risk is outrageous. Bad! Well, I’m working on it. I’ve got the amazing part down. And the scary bits are a snap. But I’ve got to come up with a hope.
— Katherine Dunn, Geek Love
Self glory makes life meaningless, glorify God fulfills it
— indonesia123
In the end I just let the dreams come and go, let whatever bliss or pain they brought roll through me....Time wears away hope like water wears away rock. As for faith, I remained in a standoff with Isis. But love, as Paul of Tarsus would say, is greater than hope and faith. It can survive without either. Love was all I had, and it would not go away. It would not die even though sometimes I wished it would.
— Elizabeth Cunningham, The Passion of Mary Magdalen
Every seed dies before It grows.
— Switchfoot
the hope is smallbut it is everything.
— Ava
While Christianity was able to agree with pagan writers that inordinate attachment to earthly goods can lead to unnecessary pain and grief, it also taught that the answer to this was not to love things less but to love God more than anything else. Only when our greatest love is God, a love that we cannot lose even in death, can we face all things with peace. Grief was not to be eliminated but seasoned and buoyed up with love and hope.
— Timothy J. Keller, Walking with God through Pain and Suffering
when you look up to the stars and there's that little shred of hope, that little ounce of desire, that your special someone is looking up the same time you are.
— haylie baker
For me, I will live so long as I can, however beaten, however maimed. I will do good to those who love me, and harm to those I hate, so long as my lungs draw breath.
— Alter S. Reiss, Sunset Mantle
Let love, joy, hope and peace be the guiding lights during this holiday season.
— Debasish Mridha
The world is waiting for you to seize the day and make the most of it! Who knows what could be possible. Keep dreaming, keep hoping, keep believing, keep doing!
— Akiroq Brost
I can't promise to take away your loneliness, but I can promise to be there when you need me the most.
— Sarvesh Jain, The Awakening Wisdom of Life: Probably the best Quotation Book in the world
Let love, joy, peace, and hope be the guiding lights of your life today, tomorrow, and forever.
— Debasish Mridha
Don't compare your story to a movie or a book because it is written by a script writer and yours by God
— Anonymous
There is a miracle in your mess, don't let the mess make you miss the miracle.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
When you're in the middle of a nightmare, something ordinary is the only hope. Anyway, ordinary things are the best. I've always thought so.
— Agatha Christie, Sad Cypress
Whatever your dreams may be, never dismiss them as impossible. Always hope. Always try. You just never know when things will happen.
— Joanne Van Leerdam
If we throw blankets over our children's dreams, we darken their world and extinguish their desire to live.
— Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.
— Hellen Keller
The worst of it is that while we continue to sink deeper into the muck and mire that we’ve created, in the very descent itself we ignorantly declare that in reality we are rising. And until desperation has crippled us sufficiently to confess the lie that we are lifting ourselves out of this mess, and until the panic of utter hopelessness has driven us to completely surrender all of the pathetic contrivances that we’ve fashioned that have put us there, we will never realize that God has readied solid ground that stands but a single step away
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Anger is very deadly. It leads to intolerance and this causes depression.I have discovered people who are temperamental need help so they can overcome such challenges.Running away from challenges doesn't help but confronting the challenges.In the practice of tolerance, one's enemy is the best teacher. If you must learn how to control your anger, you must practice it by being around those who usually provoke you the most.How you respond to their provocation should be rated by you on different occasions, you compare your latest reaction with your past, assess them and think of better ways to improve next time.Overcoming anger and intolerance is very difficult, but it is possible...it is just a gradual process but change is assured.Taking advice is easy but following the instructions is difficult but with time, if one is ready to overcome anger, it will be a thing of the past.Don't give up on yourself!
— OMOSOHWOFA CASEY
Don't be handcuffed by bad habits when you hold the key to unlock the greatness inside of you.
— Rob Liano
Hope is a form of conscious dream making.
— Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls
And ever so slowly, she sits up, giving herself another chance. She realizes that nobody can make it better. She has to make it better for herself.
— Victoria Haugnes, Diary of the mad: A short story collection
When we live holy we will glorify self but when we glorify God we will live holy
— indonesia123
We commonly confuse love with the strong emotions most often associated with it, such as joy, attachment, lust, infatuation, pleasure, pain, fear, and hope, to name a few. But, love is not a feeling; love itself is an action. There are countless emotions and beliefs that can cause us to love. Love is the willing giving of self to another living being. Love is giving the life, time, energy, and resources that we would normally give or use for our self to someone else. Love is an action that enhances the well-being of another living being.
— C W Newman, Self: A Treatise on the Nature of Reality
When wealth goes only happiness goes, when health goes even the hope goes.
— Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words
The real flight of this hawk is impending.Still,this bird is yet to be tested for real.Though I have leaped over the seas,well,the entire sky is still remaining to fly.And make sure that ,i am gonna do it with all my heart and all my soul.#loveyoourlife #liveyourlife #hvFUN
— Arunima Sinha, Born Again on the Mountain: a story of losing everything and finding it back
To the wonders of all things, we fall and then we are reborn
— Micheline Jean Louis
Hope, Glory and Victory over All the Lives of Life,Religious Leader Petra Cecilia Maria HermansReligion of Blue CircleBabajiOctober 9, 2016
— Petra Hermans
Never let the occasional delays in your life dampen your dreams
— Bernard Kelvin Clive
It’s when your plans look dead that God’s resurrection power begins to operate in your life in greater measure
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Playing is more than the act of judging the possibility of defeat or victory, playing is the probability of hope we will have victory.
— Pushpa Rana, Just the Way I Feel
Darkness should never be an excuse to quit, for with God, darkness is the exact stuff that light was built for.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
God is not interested in helping you finding out why you are in a mess, He is interested in fixing it.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Maybe it wasn't meant for me to stand on my feet
—  maybe I'm one of those who were born with wings and the destiny to fly.
God always sees me with no make-ups on because He knew how we started.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
There must always be an opposition because the enemy always opposes what the Lord has declared.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
I would rather have a man chasing JESUS than a house full of stuffs and garrage filled with big cars.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Of what use is my going to church every day and still come home and remain the same? Of what use is my attending the mosques and the next day I enter the mall with knives and start slaughtering people in the name of religion.God is a God of variety. He was not stupid creating all of us different with our uniqueness.His creating us different shows the level of His creativity. He didn't make you white to hate black or vice versa. He made it so that we can cherish and love each other irrespective of our differences just as He loved us with all our flaws and our short comings.Can we forgive those who have offended us? Yes and some will say no but never forget that you are not worthy but God still forgives you even till the last hour of your life.If God can love us against all our atrocities why can't we learn to love one another.Take a look around you, you can only see sad faces. Was that really God's intention for us on earth? Absolutely not. But we have remoulded God's creativity to suit our taste and lifestyles and now we are reaping the fruit of our labour. You should not expect to reap love when you sowed the seed of hatred. What a man sows that he reaps. We sowed on weapons of war and we are yielding war in return. We have sowed on weapons of destruction so why are we asking for peace.If you ask me....I will say let's go back to our source. He has never lost any battle. I am a living witness.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Ignorance is avoiding that which stands in front of me out of the misplaced hope that it will put what I’m ignoring behind me. Instead, it’s most certain to drop it on top of me.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
I am amazed upon the many battle that we engage in, be it money, control or matters of the heart, only very few of us knows how to fight in the right way or understand who we are really fighting against. To win any battle you' ve got to have the right strategy and resources because victories don't come by accident.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Fairness is not something to which we are entitled. Rather, it is something for which we hope.
— Craig D. Lounsbrough
Cesto smo zaglavljeni izmedju onoga sto jesmo i onoga sto zelimo da budemo.
— Tamara Stamenkovic
All the failures in my life freed me from all my fears so that I can succeed.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
I am a bit old fashion but I believe in prayer, I believe prayer can move mountain. Prayer might not be our responsibility but it is a good starting place. It can give us heaven's prospectives on human problems. I know we need to do a bit more than pray but that doesn't mean we don't need to pray.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Sometimes what not to do is more important than what to do. Sometimes when you are in crisis, when frustration are high or when you are under pressure, what you don't do is more important than what you do. Don't be afraid. ....
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
If you never listen, you can't see. The devil has got so many people so disconnected that they cannot even listen or even sense when the Lord is speaking.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Christians we cannot be allowed to be fractured at a time like this. There are more of us, there are more of light in us than in the agents of darkness.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Man's panic does not produce God's power.....sometimes you need to pray before you post on social media.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
At a time like this maybe the world is looking at us not just at a miracle crusade or sunday church service but the way we are living. Maybe they want to see whether what our Master left for us worked for us; there is a counter spirit to the spirit of fear, it is the love of God.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
This is not the first time that the world has been in a mess but you are still God, you left us on the earth, not only to preach in a building but to be the church beyond the buildings.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Before we can fix the situation, we have to first see the situation, the world can't see straight right now, some are blinded by hatred, rage, fear, scepticism, some are blinded by their pains.We need to pray...pray that God open our eyes to see the problem from the source and not from the surface.You cannot solve a situation that you cannot see correctly.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
The agenda of the Media is not to inform you, they don't care about you, they are trying to show you the truth. There are some intelligent Christians but they can't find them and put on the air ...for instance me
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
There must be something that God knows about fear that we don't know. I am sure He knows that when you are in a state of fear, you can't fix anything. When we are in a state of fear we can't talk about anything reasonable and we can't solve anything. That is the problem because the media throws all lies on us to create fear and we fall for it....Number one Satan's strategy of getting some people trapped.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Be careful the mistake of yesterday always lives with tomorrow.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
How about we be the light of Jesus Christ? There are things we tend to forget when fear becomes the driving force. The world is filled with a lot of questions now; what do we do? Who do we elect? How do we fix this? Some people feel powetless in those ways. Helpless, hopeless, confused, overwhelmed.What do we do?My answer: Stop looking for practical advice "don't be afraid " "those who are with us are more than those who are with them"2 kings 6:16
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
I don't want to settle down because God has satisfied me and heard my prayers. I want to stay hungry and thirsty for the things of God.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
The presence of crisis does not prove the absence of God. I think in time of crisis Christians should rise up and point to the world on something bigger. The crisis is an opportunity for us to proclaim to the children of darkness what we proclaim in the light.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
God always wants us to see things from heaven's prospective. You may not be doing much to your community but what you are is so important. You are significant.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Five minutes after something happened might not be the best time for you to get into your Facebook and tell everybody. Men's panic does not produce God's power.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Conflict is much the same, injustice and inequality is nothing new to our generation only the contest has changed because not only that everyone has opinion but they also have an opportunity to voice it and that is a bit dangerous.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
The conflict hasn't gotten worst but the contest has really changed.............
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
I have the word of God and my bible is very interesting, this book was conceived in battle, Jesus Christ our Saviour was conceived in brokenness, out of barenness to redeem a people who were in bondage to their sin. I know exactly where to go when the people start getting confused, trading lies for truth, buying injustice for justice and even when the media starts to show me the prospectives of the world that I am living in, I have my prospective from the word of God.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
I am so happy that I grew up knowing the word of God, the spirit of discernment in me is 24hrs activated, I can differentiate between light and darkness. I put on the amour of God even when the whole world is going to hell, I refuse to join them. The light in me shall overshadow every power of darkness.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
All of my life God has allowed me to share prospectives with people who are different. You cannot lead people whose prospective you are not willing to understand.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Surrounded by enemies, surrounded by evil, surrounded by darkness, injustice......."don't be afraid , those who are with us are more than those who are with them"2 Kings 6:16
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Whenever someone is a threat to the enemy there will be an attack dispatched against that person to try to minimise their effectiveness.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
There is power in the word of God if used properly.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
There is a remedy and there is a hope but the remedy is not in the political party or in places that will take you away from hope. You better run to God, that is the only place you can find both.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
My advice for those of you who felt being marginalised, undervalued and taken for granted; guess what? That is the Arena where God creates Leaders.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
I didn't come from a success lineage but I am so glad that my earthly lineage is not my final story because when I gave my life to Jesus twelve years back, God interrupted my story.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Parents never you make church and studying the word of God optional for your children. If they are in your house, get them up, teach them the word of God, the greatest awards, PhD or achievements any child could have is to grow up in the word of God. I and my family are living witness and it is extending to our third generation.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
I do not have any trust fund, I have always trusted God for all my funds.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
You may have fallen down, but you can get back up again. You may have doors shut, but new doors will open for you. You may have been lied on, but the truth will come to the light. You may have been hurt, but the pain will pass. You are a survivor. You have a history of surviving.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush
Gratitude without practicing maybe like practicing a faith without good work. A grateful heart is not enough without a grateful habit
—  because your joy is not produced by what you put in your heart but by habit you put in your life.
Whenever you are in transition it is always important to choose the words that you use. You call it crises in your life and I call it transition.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Be careful because God's gifts alone are not able to give you joy
—  God's gift can only bring you joy when they are joined with your gratitude.
All my pains has always increased my sense of purpose.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
If God gives you a gift and you don't know what to do with it, it won't make you happy. Some of you God gave a wonderful husband but you can't make a home and some of you God gave a wonderful wife but you can't make a good husband. Some of you can't even unwrap the gift so that you can appreciate it.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
If I listen to my heart, if I trust in that voice that sits deep in my soul, that untouched being of truth - I know it's there - I will discover the answers eventually. Maybe not immediately. Maybe not tomorrow. But if I don't open myself to possibility, I'll never know what it means to have lived. I'll never know what it means to have loved.
— E. Katherine Kottaras, The Best Possible Answer
We live only for the hope of love.
— Kamand Kojouri
Maybe what you need in your life is not the next level of accomplishment or the next level of accumulation but the next level of appreciation for what you have; that will set the stage to make a space for what you will accumulate in the future. ( a bit deep) Simply put thank God for now before setting the goal for tomorrow because if you grow in gifts and didn't grow in gratitude, you have gained nothing.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
If you can feed in the presence of your enemies, if you can be blessed under the weight of burdens, when you praise God in pain, it is preparation for provision.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
When you do away with God you become your own god, because you recognise no greater power in the universe than yourself.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
I have graduated to the extent of not asking what is happening in my life because I trust the maker(God).
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
No expensive car can keep life going except, strength for today and bright hope for tomorrow.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
I have my priorities and I know my purpose. I do not Praise God because of my pain but I praise Him because of what the pain is producing.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
In the quiet of the graveyard, the couple knelt together in soul-stretching silence—wishing, waiting, hoping, praying.
— Seth Adam Smith, Rip Van Winkle and the Pumpkin Lantern
When you praise God in pain, it is preparing you for provision.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
The things I call crisis and all the things that were coming after me are all coming to serve the purpose of God in my life.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
God made my enemies to serve me in my absence. God made the things that conspired to destroy me feed me into the place that He was preparing for me. I am a big girl and I can handle trouble and my enemies.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
When you learn to have the heart of praise in the presence of your enemies, you set the table; if you can work with God in darkness enough depending on the light that He showed you in the last season, you will learn to read your enemies as a sign that it is time to eat. ( a bit deep). Whenever you sense a crisis in your life, note that your harvest is near.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
God prepared a table before me in the presence of my insecurity, in the presence of my deficits, in the presence of my addictions, in the presence of my confusions, in the presence of what I have lost, in the presence of the threat that I won't make it, in the presence of my enemies, I am looking straight ahead.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Learn to eat with your enemies all around you but most of all thank God for his presence. Keep your eyes fixed to the presence of God in the presence of your enemies.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
I have learned to thank God for what I cannot see, I have learned to trust God with what I cannot.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Thank God #EVEN# #THOUGH# in bad times not only in your good
—  this is a graduated form of gratitude.
We should always hope and expect to see a brand new day filled with hope, love and joy.
— Bamigboye Olurotimi
Starting out a new day gives hope for new adventures, villains and hero's to cross your path. Make the most of it.
— Anastasia Bolinder
Hope can give you wings, persistence, and energy. If you’re out of work, and want to stay upbeat, thengreet the sunrise, go for a walk, count your blessings, listen to beautiful music, drink more water thanusual, eat simpler, exercise more, laugh with your family and friends, watch cartoons, take naps in thedaytime if you can’t sleep well at night, but for heaven’s sakes, don’t obsess about depressing statistics.Just determine to find alternatives for everything you are doing about your job-hunt and your life. Youwant to be the exception to whatever the odds are, about anything. Hold on to Hope, and you can beatthose odds.
— Richard N. Bolles, What Color Is Your Parachute? 2012: A Practical Manual for Job-Hunters and Career-Changers
Do you know that you can be surrounded by all these blessings, all these relationships, goodness, provisions, opportunities? But if you don't know how to turn the blessing into praise, it will turn into pride and your life will never be filled with joy because your heart has holes in it.
— Patience Johnson, Why Does an Orderly God Allow Disorder
Where there is hope there is life.
— James Rozoff
God can take the ordinary and create the extraordinary. Our incredible God has the power to transform your simple life and give you the life of your dreams. Remarkable things happen in your life when you believe.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush
Once your soul is awakened, you never return to the sleepwalking state of mind. Some people become complacent in life. They are just going through the motions and not aware of truth. Seek the knowledge, wisdom, and the understandings that vivify your existence.
— Amaka Imani Nkosazana, Heart Crush
Jesus Christ is the source—the only source—of meaning in life. He provides the only satisfactory explanation for why we’re here and where we’re going. Because of this good news, the final heartbeat for the Christian is not the mysterious conclusion to a meaningless existence. It is, rather, the grand beginning to a life that will never end. That same Lord is waiting to embrace and forgive anyone who comes to Him in humility and repentance. He is calling your name, just as He called the name of Pete Maravich. His promise of eternal life offers the only hope for humanity. If you have never met this Jesus, I suggest that you seek spiritual counsel from a Christian leader who can offer guidance. You can also write to me, if that would help. Thanks for reading along with me. I hope to meet you someday. If our paths don’t cross this side of heaven, I’ll be looking for you in that eternal city. By all means, Be there!
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
Fantasy like thought that no man could rainJust let her reignRun wild with her unafraidOf any rain stormsThey only wash the mud away and make wayFor double rainbows and sunny days
— Maquita Donyel Irvin, Stories of a Polished Pistil: Lace and Ruffles
They took one look at me,And hated my black face.They took one look at me,And decided on my fate.They took one look at me,And forced an unknown fear.They took one look at me,And caused the shed of tears.They took one look at me,And decided I was wrong.They took one look at me,And now I'm singing the slave mans song...
— N'Zuri Za Austin
...I fell asleep and had a dream that a king was liquidated by a group of kind faces....
— Maquita Donyel Irvin, Stories of a Polished Pistil: Lace and Ruffles
18. Your life is before you. Be careful of the choices you make now that you could regret later. This regret is the subject of an old poem whose author has been forgotten. I hope you’ll never have reason to apply it to yourself.	Across the fields of yesterday,	He sometimes comes to me	A little lad just back from play—	The boy I used to be.	He looks at me so wistfully	When once he’s crept within;	It is as if he hoped to see	The man I might have been.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future
Hope doesn't disappoint. God is FAITHFUL to His promises. Being delayed is a part of God's plan for our lives. So don't lose hope everything will come forth at the appointed time.
— Prophetess Dina Rolle
You’ll see,” Mother assured her. “The fish will be just as friendly and the waves just as fresh in the new world the door makers find for us.
— Melanie  Crowder, A Nearer Moon
Benny pushed a slow breath through his teeth. “Is it so terrible to believe in something?
— Melanie  Crowder, A Nearer Moon
There is a fine line that separates thinking you know something, and actually knowing the truth. It is a line as thin as a strand of hair, and it's called hope.
— Jason Pellegrini, The Replacement
Abraham Lincoln quoted the Scriptures in an 1858 speech to the Illinois Republican Convention. He said, “ A house divided against itself cannot stand.” That, I fear, is where diversity leads. If by that term we refer to love and tolerance for peoples who are different from one another, it has great validity for us. But if by diversity we mean that all of us have been given reason to resent one another. Having no common values, heritage, commitment, or hope, then we are a nation in serious trouble.
— James C. Dobson, Life on the Edge: The Next Generation's Guide to a Meaningful Future