Find Hope: Hope-Filled Stories, Quotes and Poetry Roundup
Find hope in this collection of hope-filled inspiration, including true stories, profound quotes and scripture, and beautiful poetry.
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12 Ways To Cultivate Hope In Times Of Fear
On 22 June 1940 an Armistice was signed by Hitler and Marshal Petain of France. Not everyone agreed with the terms of this Armistice, including Andre’ Trocme’ who, on the day following the signing of the Armistice, gave this rousing sermon to his congregation in France:
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Broken Lives: Finding Hope and Healing
It was broken, of that I was certain.
My arm, grasped firmly by my friend, throbbed at the pressure being forced against it.
A group of long-time neighborhood friends had gathered in the middle of the street to play a game of Red Rover.
Two teams facing each other, ready to have some fun.
“Red Rover, Red Rover, send Ethan right over!” my team yelled in unison.
With that, the shortest, but fiercest, member of the opposing team ran in my direction, focusing all his energy on my scrawny left forearm.
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Traveling Light
Releasing the burdens you were never intended to bear by popular Christian author Max Lucado
How History Helps Overcome Feelings of Hopelessness
Learning how to overcome feelings of hopelessness is a battle many people face at one time or another. Thankfully, faithful men and women from history have shown us that hope has the power to illuminate its shining light through the suffocating darkness.
Some time ago, my teenage daughter and I spent the evening discussing such things.
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3 Ways To Find Hope Amidst Darkness
“Mom, why are all the flags around town at half-staff today?” my daughter asked, gazing out the car window.
It’s a question I hear on a regular basis these days, and one that, quite frankly, I’m tired of hearing.
I’ve grown weary of sharing with my children all the negativity that is taking place in our country–mass shootings, violence, death. Instead, I’ve decided to focus on the positive, the possibilities, the things that can fill us with strength, hope, and peace. I’ve chosen to tell my children that whenever they see a flag at half staff, it’s a reminder to ask themselves the following questions:
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Building a Non-Anxious Life
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Emmanuel: A Message of Hope during Hard Times
“How can we get through hard times?” she asked the class.
My friend was leading Sunday’s discussion in our class of seven and eight-year-olds.
“Have you ever experienced something that was hard?” she continued.
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Improve Mental Health Care and Find a Cow
While our society focuses on physical health, the health of the mind is just as important as the health of the body. Fortunately, there are things we can do on a daily basis to help keep our mental health in check. Consider incorporating these five specific habits (PLUS 21 tips) into your routine, to feel happier, healthier, and more connected:
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Quotes
“Even the darkest night will end and the sun will rise.”
“Hope is the courage to take one more step, to try one more time, to believe that things will get better.”
“Hope finds me in nature searching for leaves, acorns, pinecones, rocks, flowers, nests, bark and berries. Where does my hope come from? The creator of all these simple wonders.”
“The story of Christian reformation, revival, and renaissance underscores that the darkest hour is often just before the dawn, so we should always be people of hope and prayer, not gloom and defeatism. God…can turn the situation around in five minutes.”
“Hope is a living gift, a gift that grows as we increase our faith in Jesus Christ.”
“Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces, I would still plant my apple tree.”
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Scripture
“Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.”
Romans 15:13
“And now, Lord, what wait I for? my hope is in thee.”
“For we are saved by hope: but hope that is seen is not hope: for what a man seeth, why doth he yet hope for?”
Romans 8:24
“Wherefore, ye must press forward with a steadfastness in Christ, having a perfect brightness of hope, and a love of God and of all men. Wherefore, if ye shall press forward, feasting upon the word of Christ, and endure to the end, behold, thus saith the Father: Ye shall have eternal life.”
2 Nephi 31:20
“And after ye have obtained a hope in Christ ye shall obtain riches, if ye seek them; and ye will seek them for the intent to do good—to clothe the naked, and to feed the hungry, and to liberate the captive, and administer relief to the sick and the afflicted.”
“Wherefore, we search the prophets, and we have many revelations and the spirit of prophecy; and having all these witnesses we obtain a hope, and our faith becometh unshaken, insomuch that we truly can command in the name of Jesus and the very trees obey us, or the mountains, or the waves of the sea.”
“And see that ye have faith, hope, and charity, and then ye will always abound in good works. And may the Lord bless you, and keep your garments spotless, that ye may at last be brought to sit down with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, and the holy prophets who have been ever since the world began, having your garments spotless even as their garments are spotless, in the kingdom of heaven to go no more out.”
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Poetry
Hope by Emily Dickinson
“Hope is the thing with feathers
That perches in the soul,
And sings the tune without the words,
And never stops at all,
And sweetest in the gale is heard;
And sore must be the storm
That could abash the little bird
That kept so many warm.
I ‘ve heard it in the chillest land,
And on the strangest sea;
Yet, never, in extremity,
It asked a crumb of me.”
Hope by Arthur Conan Doyle
“Faith may break on reason,
Faith may prove a treason
To that highest gift
That is granted by Thy grace;
But Hope! Ah, let us cherish
Some spark that may not perish,
Some tiny spark to cheer us,
As we wander through the waste!
A little lamp beside us,
A little lamp to guide us,
Where the path is rocky,
Where the road is steep.
That when the light falls dimmer,
Still some God-sent glimmer
May hold us steadfast ever,
To the track that we should keep.
Hope for the trending of it,
Hope for the ending of it,
Hope for all around us,
That it ripens in the sun.
Hope for what is waning,
Hope for what is gaining,
Hope for what is waiting
When the long day is done.
Hope that He, the nameless,
May still be best and blameless,
Nor ever end His highest
With the earthworm and the slime.
Hope that o’er the border,
There lies a land of order,
With higher law to reconcile
The lower laws of Time.
Hope that every vexed life,
Finds within that next life,
Something that may recompense,
Something that may cheer.
And that perchance the lowest one
Is truly but the slowest one,
Quickened by the sorrow
Which is waiting for him here.”
Conclusion
Hope, in all its splendor, is available to each of us as we seek it.
“For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, says the Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, to give you a future and a hope.” (Jeremiah 29:11)
