Whatever is Lovely: October 2012

"Hope isn't a fluttery feeling or a wispy kind of wishful thinking. Hope is something that's been weathered and hardened by the elements and has proven itself genuine. Hope has persevered; hope has suffered; hope has endured the crucible; hope has come through the fire; hope has trudged through the valley and gained the mountain, purified!"

- Bob Sorge, The Fire of Delayed Answers

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 "Everything that is done in this world is done by hope."

 
- Martin Luther

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"We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope."

- Martin Luther King Jr.

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"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

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"Remember, Hope is a good thing, maybe the best of things, and no good thing ever dies."

 - Stephen King

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 "If you lose hope, somehow you lose the vitality that keeps moving, you lose that courage to be, that quality that helps you go on in spite of it all.
And so today I still have a dream..."

-Martin Luther King Jr.

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 "Any area of your life that is without hope is under the influence of a lie.

 -Bill Johnson

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"We should ask God to increase our hope when it is small,

awaken it when it is dormant,

confirm it when it is wavering,

strengthen it when it is weak,

and raise it up when it is overthrown."

 - John Calvin

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"Though He slay me, I will hope in Him; yet I will argue my ways to His face."