J. B. Priestley Quotes

The blackness would stir and eventually go away, and God would remain, a shining point of light in my heart. I would go on loving.

You, sleeping on your bed of nails. Weeping an ocean beyond the pale. Strange, sorrow is your greatest skill. You're suffering from overkill... Choose whether to laugh or to cry. Menace and promise mingle in your eye. Wait, it's only a matter of time. You know everything will be fine... Rain falls down and the seas run high. When you're by my side we can rise above it. Let me dry all the tears inside. On your way you cannot hide from the howling wind and the roaring tide. You might get hurt but your fears will subside when you at last escape from the tears inside.

There, peeping among the cloud-wrack above a dark tower high up in the mountains, Sam saw a white star twinkle for a while. The beauty of it smote his heart, as he looked up out of the forsaken land, and hope returned to him. For like a shaft, clear and cold, the thought pierced him that in the end the Shadow was only a small and passing thing: there was light and high beauty for ever beyond its reach.

But hope is no less realistic than despair. It is still our choice whether to live in light or lie down in darkness.

Life is a mixture of successes and failures. May you be encouraged by the successes and strengthened by the failures. As long as you never lose faith in God, you will be victorious over any situation you may face.

So you mustn't be frightened, dear Mr. Kappus, if a sadness rises in front of you, larger than any you have ever seen; if an anxiety - like light and cloud-shadows, moves over your hands and everything you do. You must realize that something is happening to you, that life has not forgotten you, that it holds you in the palm of its hand and will not let you fall.

I clung to that spark of hope, nurturing it into a small flame that chased some of the shadows in my heart away.

In dire times you can lose joy, but you can't lose hope. Hope is your guide.

Hope is that tiny light that the gods have given us so that we can find our way through our darkest hours. And while we might stub our toes and bruise our knees, if we keep moving forward, even when our progress is slow and painful, we will overcome and be made better by our journey. … No misery or bad situation is ever infinite or final until we make a conscious decision for it to be so.

Life, that can shower you with so much splendour, is unremittingly cruel to those who have given up.

I will love the light for it shows me the way, yet I will endure the darkness because it shows me the stars.

Courage to continue comes from deeper sources than outward results.

If you fall seventy times a day, rise seventy times and return to God so that you will not fall too often.

It is during our darkest moments that we must focus to see the light.

I don't know what God has planned for me or you or anyone, but I do know that in darkness, you discover an indistinguishable light.

I learned that I'm really good with perseverance. I'm stronger than I thought I was inside. I also learned that I don't give up easily and that I trust and believe that things are going to be OK.

My favorite phrase is, 'God only gives struggles to people who can overcome it.' I saw it in a book, and it helped me out so much.

I don't want people to feel sorry for me or pity me - I want people to know that what got me through was human spirit and everyone has that in them.

Courage and comfort, all shall yet go well

Painting is a faith and that it brings with it the duty to pay no heed to public opinion - and that in it one conquers by perseverance and not by giving in.

Within all of us there is a storm. Some believe it will never end: but he who has faith in the heavens above will weather any storm.

Burdens become light when cheerfully borne.

Even when you feel you've reached the end or edge of life, hold on. Life itself will ultimately take care of you.

When it seems like that's all there is, remember all you have in Him.

We can choose to gather to our hearts the thorns of disappointment, failure, loneliness, and dismay in our present situation. Or we can gather the flowers of God's grace, boundless love, abiding presence, and unmatched joy. I choose to gather the flowers.