Our righteousness is in Him, and our hope depends, not upon the exercise of grace in us, but upon the fullness of grace and love in Him, and upon His obedience unto death.” -John Newton

“You can look forward with hope, because one day there will be no more separation, no more scars, and no more suffering in My Father’s House. It's the home of your dreams!” -Anne Graham Lotz

“Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul and sings the tune without the words — And never stops at all.” -Emily Dickinson

“The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It’s enough to convince our hearts that whatever sufferings and sorrows currently assail us aren’t worthy of comparison to that which waits over the horizon.” -Joni Eareckson Tada

What gives me the most hope every day is God’s grace; knowing that his grace is going to give me the strength for whatever I face, knowing that nothing is a surprise to God." -Rick Warren

"Christ showed us hope transformed into sacrificial love." -Chuck Colson

“Jesus is the hope of the world and the local church is the vehicle of expressing that hope to the world.” -Andy Stanley

“You can look forward with hope, because one day there will be no more separation, no more scars, and no more suffering in My Father’s House. It's the home of your dreams!” -Anne Graham Lotz

“Simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.” -Louie Giglio

“Where there is no hope in the future, there is no power in the present.” -John Maxwell

“True faith means holding nothing back. It means putting every hope in God's fidelity to His Promises.” -Francis Chan

"Jesus gives us hope because He keeps us company, has a vision and knows the way we should go." -Max Lucado

"Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: You don't give up." -Anne Lamott

Opportunities are on every hand; what we need is, not a new chance, but clearness of vision to discern the chance which at this very hour is ours, if we recognize it.--Katherine Krieger

Opportunities are seldom labeled.--John A. Shedd

Opportunities are usually disguised as hard work, so most people don't recognize them.--Ann Landers

Opportunity always looks bigger going than coming.--Anonymous

Opportunity dances with those already on the dance floor.--H. J. Brown, Jr. (A Hero in Every Heart)

Opportunity is often difficult to recognize; we usually expect it to beckkon us with beepers and billboards.--William A. Ward

A pessimist sees the difficulty in every opportunity; an optimist sees the opportunity in every difficulty.--Sir Winston Churchill

The policy that can strike only while the iron is hot will be overcome by that perseverance, which ... can make that iron hot by striking and he that can only rule the storm must yield to him who can both raise and rule it.--Charles Caleb Colton (Lacon: or, Many Things in Few Words)

Patience and Diligence, like faith, remove mountains.--William Penn

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.--John Quincy Adams

Patience and time do more than strength or passion.--Jean de LaFontaine

Patience asks us to live the moment to the fullest, to be completely present to the moment, to taste the here and now, to be where we are.--Henri Nouwen (Bread For the Journey)

Patience can't be acquired overnight. It is just like building up a muscle. Every day you need to work on it.--Eknath Easwaran

Patience has its limits. Take it too far, and it's cowardice.--George Jackson

Patience is bitter, but it's fruit is sweet.--Lida Clarkson ("Brush Studies" Ladies' Home Journal, 1884)

Patience is necessary, and one cannot reap immediately where one has sown.--Soren Kierkegaard (Journal)

Patience is not just about waiting for something… it’s about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.--Joyce Meyer

Patience is power. Patience is not an absence of action; rather it is "timing;" it waits on the right time to act, for the right principles and in the right way.--Fulton J. Sheen

Patience is the art of caring slowly.--John Ciardi

Patience is the best remedy for every trouble.--Plautus

Patience is the companion of wisdom.--Saint Augustine

 “Experience is the teacher of all things.” Julius Caesa“

Every experience, good or bad, is a priceless collector’s item.” Isaac Marion

“Experiences are savings which a miser puts aside.” Karl Kraus

“Learning from experience is a faculty almost never practised.” Barbara W. Tuchman

“Fill your life with experiences. Not things. Have stories to tell, not stuff to show.”