Have respect for yourself, and patience and compassion. With these, you can handle anything." —Jack Kornfield

The strongest hearts have the most scars." —Unknown

You may have to fight a battle more than once to win it." —Margaret Thatcher

Hold your head high, stick your chest out. You can make it. It gets dark sometimes, but morning comes.... Keep hope alive.--Jesse Jackson 

Hope and possibility best describe the art of teaching.--Camille Banks Lee (from The Quotable Teacher, comp. by Howe) 

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible.--William Sloan Coffin, Jr. 

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 (Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life) 

Hope, deceiving as it is, serves at least to lead us to the end of our lives by an agreeable route.--François de la Rochefoucauld 

Hope has two beautiful daughters. Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.--Saint Augustine 

Hope is a good thing--maybe the best thing, and no good thing ever dies.--Stephen King (The Shawshank Redemption) 

Hope is a pleasant acquaintance, but an unsafe friend.--Thomas Chandler Haliburton 

Hope is a talent like any other.--Storm Jameson 

Hope is a vigorous principle ... it sets the head and heart to work, and animates a man to do his utmost.--Jeremy Collier 

Hope is a waking dream.--Aristotle 

Hope is generally a wrong guide, though it is good company along the way.--George Saville 

Hope is like a road in the country: there was never a road, but when many people walk on it, the road comes into existence.--Lin Yutang 

Hope is love's happiness, but not its life.--Letitia E. Landon 

Hope is not a granted wish or a favor performed; no it is far greater than that. It is a zany, unpredictable dependence on a God who loves to surprise us out of our socks.--Max Lucado (God Came Near) 

Hope...is the companion of power, and the mother of success; for who so hopes has within him the gift of miracles.--Samuel Smiles 

"Hope" is the thing with feathers--That perches in the soul--And sings the tune without the words--
and never stops – at all.--Emily Dickenson 

Hope, like the gleaming taper's light Adorns and cheers our way; And still, as darker grows the night,Emits a brighter ray.--Oliver Goldsmith (The Captivity) 

Hope means believing in spite of the evidence, and then watching the evidence change.--Jim Wallis (Speaking of Faith interview, Nov. 29, 2007 

Hope sings when all melodies are gone.--John C. Maxwell ( Sometimes you Win - Sometimes you Learn) 

Hope springs eternal in the human breast:
Man never is, but always To be Blest.--Alexander Pope (Essay on Man, Epistle 1, 1.95) 

Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.--Jim Wallis (The Soul of Politics: a Practical and Prophetic Vision for Change)

The more you seek security, the less of it you have. But the more you seek opportunity, the more likely it is that you will achieve the security that you desire.--Brian Tracy 

Never lose an opportunity of seeing anything that is beautiful for beauty is God's handwriting - a wayside sacrament. Welcome it in every fair face, in every fair sky, in every fair flower, and thank God for it as a cup of blessing.--Ralph Waldo Emerson 

No great man ever complains of want of opportunity.--Ralph Waldo Emerson 

One can present people with opportunities. One cannot make them equal to them.--Rosamond Lehmann (The Ballad and the Source) 

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

Thinking "I failed" is a copout! It lets you off the hook. Game over, dude. I am not about to let you off so easily. Reframe your setbacks as signals for change and the opportunity to improve. This method of thinking requires a lot more energy than "I blew it." Instead, explode your limiting mindset. What would happen if you replaced the concept of failure with that of opportunity?-Devora Zack (Networking for People Who Hate Networking) 

This is an exciting world. It is cram packed with opportunity. Great moments await around every corner.--Richard M. DeVos 

Those who base their lives on the belief that a loving God is acting in their behalf tend to see problems as opportunities for growth.--Nido Qubein 

Times of stress and difficulty are seasons of opportunity when the seeds of progress are sown.--Thomas F. Woodlock 

To improve the golden moment of opportunity, and catch the good that is within our reach, is the great art of life.--William James 

Tomorrow is the most important thing in life. Comes into us at midnight very clean. It's perfect when it arrives and it puts itself in our hands. It hopes we've learned something from yesterday.--John Wayne 

Too many people are thinking of security instead of opportunity; they seem more afraid of life then of death.--James F. Byrnes

 Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them." -  Elisabeth Elliot

God will meet you where you are in order to take you where He wants you to go." - Tony Evans

Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrows; it empties today of its strength." - Corrie Ten Boom

The will of God will not take us where the grace of God cannot sustain us." - Billy Graham

The greater your knowledge of the goodness and grace of God on your life, the more likely you are to praise Him in the storm." - Matt Chandler

God is able to take the mess of our past and turn it into a message. He takes the trials and tests and turns them into a testimony." - Christine Cain

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

Remember Whose you are and Whom you serve. Provoke yourself by recollection, and your affection for God will increase tenfold; your imagination will not be starved any longer, but will be quick and enthusiastic, and your hope will be inexpressibly bright." -Oswald Chambers

We can see hope in the midst of hopelessness. We can see peace in the midst of chaos. We have a hope that the world does not have. We can see clearly that all things work together for the good of them that love Him and are called according to His purpose." - Priscilla Shirer

You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice." —Bob Marley

 To be used of God. Is there anything more encouraging, more fulfilling? Perhaps not, but there is something more basic: to meet with God. To linger in His presence, to shut out the noise of the city and, in quietness, give Him the praise He deserves. Before we engage ourselves in His work, let’s meet Him in His Word… in prayer… in worship.

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations.

When God is involved, anything can happen. Be open. When God is involved, anything can happen. Be open. Stay that way. God has a beautiful way of bringing good vibrations out of broken chords.

A saying I heard years ago: ‘It doesn’t matter what you do. Just do something, even if it’s wrong!’ That’s the most stupid counsel I’ve ever heard. Never do what’s wrong! Do nothing until it’s right. Then do it with all your might. That’s wise counsel.

You’re through. Finished. Burned out. Used up. You’ve been replaced. . . forgotten. That’s a lie

Faith is like radar that sees through the fog — the reality of things at a distance that the human eye cannot see.”

Forgiveness

“Forgiveness is an act of the will, and the will can function regardless of the temperature of the heart.”

“And for all these people alike, the key to healing turned out to be the same. Each had a hurt he had to forgive.”

“Forgiveness is the key that unlocks the door of resentment and the handcuffs of hatred. It is a power that breaks the chains of bitterness and the shackles of selfishness.”

“God never measures the mind… He always put His tape measure in the HEART”

Dear Jesus…how foolish of me to have called for human help when You are here.”

“Don’t bother to give God instructions; just report for duty.”

“It is not my ability, but my response to God’s ability, that counts.”

“Trying to do the Lord’s work in your own strength is the most confusing, exhausting, and tedious of all work. But when you are filled with the Holy Spirit, then the ministry of Jesus just flows out of you.”

“There is no panic in Heaven! God has no problems, only plans.”

“When I try, I fail. When I trust, He succeeds.”

“And our wise Father in heaven knows when we’re going to need things too. Don’t run out ahead of Him.”

“We never know how God will answer our prayers, but we can expect that He will get us involved in His plan for the answer. If we are true intercessors, we must be ready to take part in God’s work on behalf of the people for whom we pray.”

“He uses our problems for His miracles. This was my first lesson in learning to trust Him completely…”

God loves each of us as if there were only one of us” - Augustine

God never said that the journey would be easy, but He did say that the arrival would be worthwhile" - Max Lucado

God’s work done in God’s way will never lack God’s supplies." - Hudson Taylor

God will meet you where you are in order to take you where He wants you to go."  - Tony Evans

He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep, to gain what he cannot lose." - Jim Elliot

Remember who you are. Don’t compromise for anyone, for any reason. You are a child of the Almighty God. Live that truth." - Lysa Terkeurst

If you can’t fly, then run, If you can’t run, then walk, If you can’t walk, then crawl, but whatever you do, you have to keep moving forward." - Martin Luther King Jr.

Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don’t really matter." - Francis Chan

If God is your partner, make your plans BIG!" - D.L. Moody

You are the only Bible some unbelievers will ever read." - John MacArthur

We gain strength, and courage, and confidence by each experience in which we really stop to look fear in the face...we must do that which we think we cannot."  - Eleanor Roosevelt

He who lays up treasures on earth spends his life backing away from his treasures. To him, death is loss. He who lays up treasures in heaven looks forward to eternity; he’s moving daily toward his treasures. To him, death is gain." - Randy Alcorn

God does not give us everything we want, but He does fulfill His promises, leading us along the best and straightest paths to Himself.” - Dietrich Bonhoeffer

The Christian life is not a constant high. I have my moments of deep discouragement. I have to go to God in prayer with tears in my eyes, and say, 'O God, forgive me,' or 'Help me.'” - Billy Graham

Always, everywhere God is present, and always He seeks to discover Himself to each one" - A.W.Tozer

If you believe in a God who controls the big things, you have to believe in a God who controls the little things.  It is we, of course, to whom things look 'little' or 'big'." - Elisabeth Eliot

There is no one who is insignificant in the purpose of God." - Alistair Begg

Relying on God has to start all over everyday, as if nothing has yet been done."  –C.s Lewis

This is our time on the history line of God. This is it. What will we do with the one deep exhale of God on this earth? For we are but a vapor and we have to make it count. We’re on. Direct us, Lord, and get us on our feet." - Beth Moore

The best thing about the future is that it comes only one day at a time." - Abraham Lincoln

Your potential is the sum of all the possibilities God has for your life." - Charles Stanley

The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." - Helen Keller

We are all faced with a series of great opportunities brilliantly disguised as impossible situations." - Chuck Swindoll

Faith does not eliminate questions. But faith knows where to take them." -  Elisabeth Elliot

God will meet you where you are in order to take you where He wants you to go." - Tony Evans

I've read the last page of the Bible, it's all going to turn out all right.”

It is the Holy Spirit's job to convict, God's job to judge and my job to love.”

My home is in Heaven. I'm just traveling through this world.”

God proved his love on the Cross. When Christ hung, and bled, and died, it was God saying to the world, ‘I love you.’”

Suppose you could gain everything in the whole world, and lost your soul. Was it worth it?”

There is nothing wrong with men possessing riches. The wrong comes when riches possess men.”

If a person gets his attitude toward money straight, it will help straighten out almost every other area in his life.”

Christ not only died for all: he died for each.”

 Heaven is full of answers for which nobody ever bothered to ask.”

 Take one day at a time. Today, after all, is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday.”

 Father and receive all they need. … For only when you have become utterly dependent upon prayer and faith, only when all human possibilities have been exhausted, can you begin to reckon that God will intervene and work His miracles. ~ Basilea Schlink

The Lord intends us to be powerful people-mighty in optimism and hopeful of spirit, powerful in evangelistic zeal, potent in influence, sturdy in moral fiber and purity. We can be powerhouses in prayer and preaching. ~ David Jeremiah

If you are strangers to prayer you are strangers to power. ~ Billy Sunday

If you want that splendid power in prayer, you must remain in loving, living, lasting, conscious, practical, abiding union with the Lord Jesus Christ. ~ Charles H. Spurgeon

The prayers of God’s saints strengthen the unborn generation against the desolating waves of sin and evil. ~ E.M. Mounds

There has never been a spiritual awakening in any country or locality that did not begin in united prayer. ~ A.T. Pierson

Salvation is from our side a choice, from the divine side it is a seizing upon, an apprehending, a conquest by the Most High God. Our “accepting” and “willing” are reactions rather than actions. The right of determination must always remain with God. ~ A.W. Tozer, Preacher

Surely scripture is right when it makes the sin of sins that unbelief, which is at bottom nothing else than a refusal to take the cup of salvation. Surely no sharper grief can be inflicted upon the Spirit of God than when we leave His gifts neglected and unappropriated. ~ Alexander MacLaren, Pastor

I am not the author of the plan of salvation, but I am responsible for the way I preach it. ~ Billy Sunday, Evangelist

And now let me address all of you, high and low, rich and poor, one with another, to accept of mercy and grace while it is offered to you; Now is the accepted time, now is the day of salvation; and will you not accept it, now it is offered unto you? ~ George Whitefield, Preacher & Evangelist

Christians do not practically remember that while we are saved by grace, altogether by grace, so that in the matter of salvation works are altogether excluded; yet that so far as the rewards of grace are concerned, in the world to come, there is an intimate connection between the life of the Christian here and the enjoyment and the glory in the day of Christ’s appearing. ~ George Mueller, Missionary

 Faith sees the invisible, believes the unbelievable, and receives the impossible.”  ~ Corrie Ten Boom (A Dutch Christian who helped many Jews escape the Nazi Holocaust)

“Cleverness is cheap. It is faith that He praises.”  ~ George Macdonald (Scottish author, poet and Christian minister)

“A string of opinions no more constitutes faith, than a string of beads constitutes holiness.”  ~ John Wesley (Anglican cleric and Christian Theologian, co-founder of the Methodist Church)

“Talk what we will of faith, if we do not trust and rely upon Him, we do not believe in Him.”  ~ Anthony Farindon (Famous English Preacher)

“The only way to learn strong faith is to endure great trials.”  ~ George Muller (English Evangelist)

“I do not want merely to possess a faith, I want a faith that possesses me.”  ~ Charles Kingsley (English Clergyman)

“When I cannot enjoy the faith of assurance, I live by the faith of adherence.”  ~ Matthew Henry (English Bible Commentator and Minister)

“I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen: not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.”  ~ C. S. Lewis (Novelist, Lay Theologian and Christian Apologist)

“Faith must have adequate evidence, else it is mere superstition.”  ~ A. A. Hodge (Leader in the American Presbyterian Church)

“Temptation exercises our faith and teaches us to pray.”  ~ A. B. Simpson (Founder of the Christian Missionary Alliance)

“We need a quickening of faith; faith in the power of the God of Pentecost to convict and convert three thousand in a day. Faith, not in a process of culture by which we hope to train children into a state of salvation, but faith in the mighty God who can quicken a dead soul into life in a moment; faith in moral and spiritual revolution rather than evolution.”  ~ A. C. Dixon (Pastor, Bible Expositor and Evangelist)

“There is still One whose faith in you has never wavered. And how wonderful it is that that one should be Jesus Christ! It was a wonderful dream God dreamed, Christ says, when He created you; it was a stately being that was in His mind when you were fashioned; and I can make you all He meant that you should be.”  ~ A. J. Gossip (Professor of Christian Ethics and Practical Theology)

“By faith we are taken into Christ, made at once safe from holy wrath against sin, and kept safe from all perils and penalties. He, our divine Redeemer, becomes to us the new sphere of harmony and unity with God and His law, with His life and His holiness.” ~ A. T. Pierson (American Presbyterian Pastor)

“The Bible recognizes no faith that does not lead to obedience, nor does it recognize any obedience that does not spring from faith. The two are at opposite sides of the same coin.”  ~ A. W. Tozer (American Preacher and Author)

 A true friend never gets in your way unless you happen to be going down.” – Arnold H. Glasgow

Some people go to priests. Others to poetry. I to my friends.”—Virginia Woolf

Anything is possible when you have the right people there to support you." — Misty Copeland

There are three things that grow more precious with age; old wood to burn, old books to read, and old friends to enjoy.” — Henry Ford

The love that comes from friendship is the underlying facet of a happy life.” – Chelsea Handler

Don’t walk behind me; I may not lead. Don’t walk in front of me; I may not follow. Just walk beside me and be my friend.”- Albert Camus

The greatest gift in life] is the gift of friendship, and I have received it; the greatest healing therapy is friendship.”  — Hubert Humphrey

Never leave a friend behind. Friends are all we have to get us through this life—and they are the only things from this world that we could hope to see in the next.” — Dean Koontz

A friend is one who overlooks your broken fence and admires the flowers in your garden.” — Anonymous

True friends are those rare people who come to find you in dark places and lead you back to the light.” — Anonymous

Friendship isn’t about who you’ve known the longest. It’s about who walked into your life, said, “I’m here for you”, and proved it.” — Anonymous

The only way to have a friend is to be one.” — Ralph Waldo Emerson

A friend is one who knows you and loves you just the same.” – Elbert Hubbard

A single rose can be my garden… a single friend, my world.” – Leo Buscaglia

One loyal friend is worth ten thousand relatives.” – Euripides

True friendship comes when the silence between two people is comfortable." — David Tyson

Friends are those rare people who ask how we are and then wait to hear the answer." — Ed Cunningham

A true friend is someone who thinks that you are a good egg even though he knows that you are slightly cracked." — Bernard Meltzer

The great thing about new friends is that they bring new energy to your soul.” – Shanna Rodriguez

A friend is an emotional bond, just like friendship is a human experience.” – Simon Sinek

 Anytime we step out boldly to make changes, we take a chance that we might fail. But the only way to get better is to try.” – Joyce Meyer

Choosing an attitude of faith will release peace out of your spirit and into your soul.” – Joyce Meyer

Forgive the person who badly hurt you long ago and also the stranger who stepped on your toe in the grocery store.” – Joyce Meyer

God is good, and He cannot be anything else.” – Joyce Meyer

Learn how to enjoy where you are on the way to where you’re going.” – Joyce Meyer

Nobody can be set free from a problem until they’re willing to admit they have one.” – Joyce Meyer

Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is ‘not complex or complicated; sincere.’” – Joyce Meyer

There are some hurts that we experience that can be forgiven but we won’t forget them.” – Joyce Meyer

We have an epidemic of insecure people in our society today.” – Joyce Meyer

You can suffer the pain of change or suffer remaining the way you are.” – Joyce Meyer

I am radically, insanely, nutty in love with Jesus! He has set me free!” – Joyce Meyer

Instead of judging people, we need to pray.” – Joyce Meyer

Love gives life purpose and meaning.” – Joyce Meyer

Our joy does not have to be based on our circumstances.” – Joyce Meyer

Teachers can change lives with just the right mix of chalk and challenges.” – Joyce Meyer

There’s no happier person than a truly thankful, content person.” – Joyce Meyer

We must guard against allowing anger to drag us into sin.” – Joyce Meyer

You cannot have a positive life and a negative mind.” – Joyce Meyer

Character is expressed through our behavior patterns, or natural responses to things.” – Joyce Meyer

Every day is a gift from God. Learn to focus on the Giver and enjoy the gift!” – Joyce Meyer

Get up every day, love God, and do your best. He will do the rest!” – Joyce Meyer

 Most people never run far enough on their first wind, to find out if they've got a second. Give your dreams all you've got, and you'll be amazed at the energy that comes out of you.--William James

You are never too old to set another goal or to dream a new dream.

The Future Belongs To Those Who Believe In The Beauty Of Their Dreams.” – Eleanor Roosevelt

Don’t just chase your dreams, catch them.” – Annette White

If you never dream, you will never know the endless possibilities of what you can become.” – Annette White

A dream doesn’t become reality through magic; it takes sweat, determination, and hard work.” – Colin Powell

No one has ever achieved greatness without dreams.” – Roy T. Bennett

Never give up on a dream just because of the time it will take to accomplish it. The time will pass anyway.” – Earl Nightingale