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If we are to have any hope for the future, those who have lanterns must pass them on to others.
If you feel positive, you have a sense of hope. If you have hope, you can have courage.
Prepared for the worst,but still praying for the best
I think this generation can play a very important role. If we act now, this could be the first generation to witness universal education.
I regard music therapy as a tool of great power in many neurological disorders -- Parkinson's and Alzheimer's -- because of its unique capacity to organize or reorganize cerebral function when it has been damaged.
Don't let the hurt of today blind you to the hope of tomorrow. Disappointment ushers in a new appointment.
The strongest and sweetest songs yet remain to be sung.
I have written a song that says: If you ever lose someone dear to you, never say the words, "They're gone," and they'll come back.
When Jesus died on the cross and cried out, 'It is finished!' He not only died for our sins, but for our diseases too.
There's always a rainbow at the end of every rain.
God's plan is not to abandon this world, the world which he said was "very good." Rather, he intends to remake it. And when he does he will raise all his people to new bodily life to live in it. That is the promise of the Christian gospel.
Participation - that's what's gonna save the human race.
And when one person taps out a beat, while another leads into the melody, or when three people discover a harmony they never knew existed, or a crowd joins in on a chorus as though to raise the ceiling a few feet higher, then they also know there is hope for the world.
God's kingdom is launched through Jesus and particularly through his death and resurrection; but, by the Spirit, this kingdom is not an escape from the present world but rather its transformation, already in the present (starting with Jesus' resurrection) and in the ultimate future (the new heaven and earth including our own resurrection).
Jesus doesn't give an explanation for the pain and sorrow of the world. He comes where the pain is most acute and takes it upon himself. Jesus doesn't explain why there is suffering, illness, and death in the world. He brings healing and hope. He doesn't allow the problem of evil to be the subject of a seminar. He allows evil to do its worst to him. He exhausts it, drains its power, and emerges with new life.
Broken hearts healed. Maybe the cracks were always there, like thin scars, but they healed. People lived and worked, laughed and ate, walked and talked with those cracks For many, even the scars healed and they loved again.
I think the world is going to be saved by millions of small things.
The birth, death, and resurrection of Jesus means that one day everything sad will come untrue.
Above all shadows rides the sun.
One of the great enemies of hope is forgetting God's promises.
Still round the corner there may wait, A new road or a secret gate.
Imagine all the people living life in peace. You may say I'm a dreamer, but I'm not the only one. I hope someday you'll join us, and the world will be as one.
No matter what you’re going through there's no pit so deep that God can’t reach in and get you out.
I think that little by little I'll be able to solve my problems and survive.
Do not despair, thinking that you cannot change yourself after so many years. Simply enter into the presence of Jesus as you are and ask him to give you a fearless heart where he can be with you. You cannot make yourself different. Jesus came to give you a new heart, a new spirit, a new mind, and a new body. Let him transform you by his love and so enable you to receive his affection in your whole being.
They have the guns, we have the poets. Therefore, we will win.
There is only one thing I hope to see before I die, and that is that my people should not need expressions of sympathy anymore.
Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.
When there is no vision, there is no hope.
Faith is the strength by which a shattered world shall emerge into the light.
Hope is willing to leave unanswered questions unanswered and unknown futures unknown. Hope makes you see God's guiding hand not only in the gentle and pleasant moments but also in the shadows of disappointment and darkness.
"I have a tremendous faith in the possibilities of man, which have shown in his past, and I believe if we avoid war, we shall be able to revive our real vision of life, but that we must see it, and therefore, that we must be critical to where we are."
Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.
Night is always darker before the dawn and life is the same, the hard times will pass, every thing will get better and sun will shine brighter then ever.
As much as the world has an instinct for evil and is a breeding ground for genocide, holocaust, slavery, racism, war, oppression, and injustice, the world has an even greateer instinct for goodness, rebirth, mercy, beauty, truth, freedom and love.
The rain will stop, the night will end, the hurt will fade. Hope is never so lost that it can't be found.
I still believe in man in spite of man. I believe in language even though it has been wounded, deformed, and perverted by the enemies of mankind. And I continue to cling to words because it is up to us to transform them into instruments of comprehension rather than contempt. It is up to us to choose whether we wish to use them to curse or to heal, to wound or to console.
My hope lives not because I am not a sinner, but because I am a sinner for whom Christ died; my trust is not that I am holy, but that being unholy, HE is my righteousness. My faith rests not upon what I am or shall be or feel or know, but in what Christ is, in what He has done, and in what He is now doing for me. Hallelujah!
So let's take the good times as they go and I'll meet you further on up the road.
The best way to not feel hopeless is to get up and do something. Don’t wait for good things to happen to you. If you go out and make some good things happen, you will fill the world with hope, you will fill yourself with hope.
No matter how dark and hopeless a situation might seem, never stop praying.
Jesus comes for sinners, for those outcast...and those caught up in squalid choices and failed dreams.
At the end of every hard day, people find some reason to believe.
Show a little faith, there's magic in the night.
Christianity doesn’t deny the reality of suffering and evil… Our hope… is not based on the idea that we are going to be free of pain and suffering. Rather, it is based on the conviction that we will triumph over suffering.
God is too good to be unkind and He is too wise to be mistaken. And when we cannot trace His hand, we must trust His heart. When you are so weak that you cannot do much more than cry, you coin diamonds with both your eyes. The sweetest prayers God ever hears are the groans and sighs of those who have no hope in anything but his love.
Where there's hope, there's life. It fills us with fresh courage and makes us strong again.
I looked up in the sky and trusted in God.