“Faith to me is trusting in every evidence that something is―that it is possible, that it is significant, that it is real.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Please, ask God about it first. Just pray.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“God has promised to answer our earnest prayers. Not necessarily right away or in the manner we hope to receive the answers, but He has promised in His ways and in His timing to answer our prayers. So what do you have to lose by asking God your honest questions and desires?”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“I made a sorry face in response to such strong insistence, but I couldn’t believe him. Fantasies were exactly that―fantasies. Whimsy. Wishes. Mere castles in the sky without foundation or substance. Dreams didn’t come true. To believe so would be to believe falsely, to surrender to madness, to give in to an unreliable hope that would crush me once again as it always, always did!”
Source: Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
“Past and Present I know well; each is a friend and sometimes an enemy to me. But it is the quiet, beckoning Future, an absolute stranger, with whom I have fallen madly in love.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“To encourage me is to believe in me, which gives me the power to defeat dragons.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“It's been a harsh fight.
You've been pummeled and knocked down. Your body aches, flesh torn and bruised. Your eyes can hardly see through a stream of blood. But you are cognizant and alive; therefore, you rise from the fight.
This is life. It will test your will, your strength, and endurance. It will challenge your faith and convictions. It will scar your hopes and try your beliefs. In the end, life validates those who refuse to stay down.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Learn to look up now and then, just in case a piano is falling from overhead.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“To keep from drowning… don’t just avoid the water, steer clear of the beach.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Imagine fantasy and pretend as neither fantastical nor pretended.....and then believe it.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“You can lament over what could have been, or you can do something bold; use that energy to create an enviable future. It is up to you.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“With freedom comes accountability. The two are securely bound.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Fear is not something easily shrugged off; it hangs on its prey like a heavy cloak threatening to choke and weigh down the wearer. Despite fear’s awful hindering effects, we must dare to behave boldly in its presence. For boldness is one of the few weapons that can convince fear to loosen its grip.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“It is hard to steer oneself in the right direction when fear is at the helm.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“Kindness solves more problems than diplomacy, wealth, intelligence, clout, force, law, and dominion combined.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“All human beings wield influence—a powerful sword granted at birth. Wield your sword with care.”
Source: Slaying Dragons: Quotes, Poetry, & a Few Short Stories for Every Day of the Year
“Through sheer volume of passing days you will travel a great distance in your lifetime. Imagine where you might stand if your footsteps steered toward a single goal.”
Source: Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Slipping off the mattress and onto my knees, I clasped both hands together and bowed my head. With eyelids squeezed tightly shut, I whispered in the darkness, not wanting my mother to overhear. My lips barely moved, offering up a simple prayer. I hoped God would take a moment and listen to these softly spoken words. With complete sincerity I begged the Lord…
"Dear God, please hear my prayer. I’m sorry I can’t talk louder, but Mama might overhear and worry. I’ve been told that you do answer prayers, and I believe it’s true. So please, just this one time, will you hear me?”
Source: Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
“Prayer is a personal and intimate conversation between you and God. It is a time to share your biggest dreams and deepest fears. It is a time to tell God of your humble needs as well as every heartfelt desire. It is when to express great hopes and sincere gratitude.
Many times, during moments of stillness and contemplation in prayer, it is when inspiration, promptings, and insight come to your heart and mind as answers and guidance from a loving Heavenly Father.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“My love for you reaches beyond the borders of continents,
so vast in scope that I would cross oceans to be with you.
Yes, but does that same love penetrate so deep
as to dare thee to sink to the oceans' depths to find me?"
-from "My Aquarius”
“All truth starts out as a wish; hence, reality is born from fairy tale."
from—"My Aquarius”
“So many times I have prayed to God in my darkest, painful moments and felt entirely alone. As I agonized, earnestly pleading on my knees, I did not feel God’s presence despite desperately wanting to. I ached to know I was not alone, to know my prayers were being heard. But as a new day dawned, I remained sad and uncertain, and I continued on with my life.
Many days followed, and as they did, I started to notice things. Small, tender mercies. People crossed my path who spoke words I needed to hear. Small and simple incidents produced profound insights specific to my problems. Blessings came in ways I never previously considered. Miracles too were granted, though I did not recognize them as such until looking back. I realized, bit by bit, that my prayers were answered.
I have learned that God is there—listening, caring, and preparing ways for us to work through trials successfully. God’s work is not to remove every suffering or to make life painless. He does not fix everything in the instant we plead for relief, but instead, God allows hardships to continue so we might grow in experience, strength, and empathy. God wants us to overcome trials so we might gain the rewards of doing so. Earth was created for us for this very reason.
We are shaped and refined by the experiences of mortal life, both the good and the bad. God is aware of this. Even during the times we feel alone, God is there. He is always cheering us on, encouraging our progress, even weeping right beside us in darker hours, hoping we keep trying.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“Is there nothing you can do? Quite the contrary. You can pray, my dear. With earnestness, you can pray.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“I think prayer is a very good practice, Miss Annabelle. It’s something I do daily—a perfect way to share with God our feelings and wishes and heartfelt gratitude."
I was relieved that he approved of my plan. His finger rose and rested against the tip of his nose portending additional thoughts on the subject.
"I do want you to consider one thing, however. When you offer this prayer of yours, keep in mind that God, the creator of all things including us, has a much grander perspective than the tiny, often self-centered viewpoint we possess here on this Earth. Having His home in the heavens and His all-knowing eye looking down upon us, He perceives things far beyond what we can possibly see. What we assume is a grave disappointment or a terrible tragedy often proves to be a stepping stone to something greater—a necessary moment of sufferable experience in God’s plan for us.”
Source: Dandelions: The Disappearance of Annabelle Fancher
“Autumn is a cunning muse who steals by degrees my warmth and light. So distracted by her glorious painting of colors, I scarcely realize my losses until the last fiery leaf has fallen to the ground and the final pumpkin shrinks. Autumn departs with a cold kiss, leaving me to suffer the frigid grasp of winter in prolonged nightfall.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“The first real day of spring is like the first time a boy holds your hand. A flood of skin-tingling warmth consumes you, and everything shines with a fresh, colorful glow, making you forget that anything as cold and harsh as winter ever existed.”
Source: Making Wishes: Quotes, Thoughts, & a Little Poetry for Every Day of the Year
“Dark feelings churn inside me, weighing my spirit as if gray clouds were emptying their cold, drenching contents into my being. I have endured such a storm for seasons now; it has blurred into years of miserable existence. I wonder a desperate thought: when will the rains cease? For surely they must. And if by some cruel twist of nature a forbidding storm can rage eternal, might an outside gust be powerful enough to blow it all past? Say yes. Oh please, say yes! Blow ferociously! Do not leave me doomed to a life drenched in the darkest feelings.”
Source: Being Bold: Quotes, Poetry, & Motivations for Every Day of the Year
“He was a volcano that spewed only ashes and destruction, and they despised him for that lying tongue.”
Source: A Heart Made of Tissue Paper
“Faith is strength, courage, belief, will, hope, power, and determination all wrapped up together. Faith is the blade used to slay our doubts and fears.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“This is your present, not your past.
You live in the present, not the past.
What matters is the present, not the past.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“God is your Heavenly Father, the father of your spirit. How can you not be important to Him? How can you not have amazing potential with a lineage like that? Don’t give up, have hope. Believe in who you are: a child of a living God.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“Have hope.
Trust in the Lord.
Know He can do all things.
Exercise faith in God’s timing.
Believe.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“I hoped for a rose and got lilies.
I hoped for the sun and got rain.
I hoped for a cat and got puppies.
I hoped for Brazil and got Spain.
I hoped for a raise and got transferred.
I hoped for northwest and got south.
I hoped for ice cream and got yogurt.
I hoped for a kiss on the mouth.
I hoped for more time and got late fees.
I hoped for a cruise, got a flight.
I hoped for Poseidon, got Hades.
I hoped for long days over nights.
You may wonder why I keep hoping,
As fruitless as it seems to be.
But hope is a bow, not an arrow.
Its release depends much upon me.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“Sometimes you have to look at the sunny side of the problem. Though, you might ask, is there always a sunny side? Maybe not. Or maybe it just reveals itself a little further down the road when our perspective broadens enough to see the whole picture.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“The difference between hope and no hope is the difference between light and no light. It is the difference between dreams and no dreams, ambition and no ambition, joy and no joy, peace and no peace, tomorrow and no tomorrow.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“Hope is the reason we hang on until tomorrow. Without hope, there would be no tomorrow… or at any rate, there would be no purpose for it.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“What gives us hope is believing in the possibility of something. Even the slightest, minute possibility is enough to keep hope alive, and with it, our strength to hold on.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“Hope is a force that keeps us going, trying, reaching, and breathing. It is a fire in the soul that, if kept burning, will sustain us against all odds.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“This is hope: knowing God is aware of answers and options you do not presently see.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“Hope is like a spotlight that illuminates possibilities, making them stand out when they might not otherwise.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“Hope is the sustaining force that enables us to hold on a little longer, fight a little harder, to keep going, keep pushing, keep trying, and keep breathing.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“Do not lose hope, even when the end is in sight. Hope beyond it. Hope past the presumed end because hope is an extraordinary end-changer. If it’s not over yet, it’s not over. Never abandon hope.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“Hope is as important to human survival as air, food, and water. Perhaps more so.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“What gives me hope? Knowing that with God all things are possible.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“To motivate or inspire a soul requires hope. To lift a weary body up off the floor requires hope. To push an individual to greatness requires hope. To ask for something requires hope that it might be received. To attempt anything requires hope that it can be accomplished. To wake up requires hope, and to lie down at night requires hope that in the morning, eyes will again open wide. Hope is what makes us move. It is what drives our steps, our efforts, our prayers, and our dreams. Hope is the fuel that ignites our inner fires. Without hope, humanity would grow cold and die.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“On an overcast day, I look out of the window from my office and see gray clouds slowly meandering overhead. There was a time when the rain and cloud cover weighed heavily on my emotions as if they were gloom in its natural form, crying and raging with thunderous outbursts. But now those rainclouds appear differently to me, more like a soft, temperate, protective cover that makes me want to curl up with a book and relax. Funny how our outlook changes over time.
If it seems like circumstances will always be as they are, it is an illusion. As sure as the weather and nature and aging, you can count on life changing both you and your situation. How awful stagnancy would be if this were not true.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“Hope can be as fragile as butterfly wings, so when someone shares with you their beautiful hopes, handle them as delicately and kindly as possible. Never crush anyone’s wings.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“Hope.
Fortitude.
Optimism.
These are dynamic superpowers.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“I HOPE it will happen when I am unsure that it will but I know that it can.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year
“Hope fuels our ability to persevere; it is oxygen for the fire in our hearts.”
Source: Hope Evermore: Quotes, Verse, & Spiritual Inspiration for Every Day of the Year