John Henry Newman Quotes

You can't be brave if you've only had wonderful things happen to you.

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

Have a little faith, kick a little dirt.

You can do nothing, or you can take on the challenge of taking on the adversity. You have got to have faith. You have to have faith in whatever you believe in.

Everyone has faced something; some struggles are more heroic than others.

You have setbacks in your life, and adversity. You can be discouraged about it or have courage to get through it and be better.

I think that hope is the act of continuing in the face of the truth.

I've learned at the book signings that everyone has obstacles.

Hope is one of those no-win-no-fee things, and although it needs some encouragement to survive, its existence doesn't necessarily prove anything.

Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.

The point about hope is that it is something that occurs in very dark moments. It is like a flame in the darkness; it isn't like a confidence and a promise.

I don't care who you are, life has challenges.

I think most people, no matter what their situation, manage to find joy and comfort in their daily lives. I also think things fall apart.

My life is a beautiful struggle.

God, he deals you blows that at sometimes you think you can't handle and in the last year there have been things that we thought we couldn't handle but we've dealt with it up until this point.

And if you don't believe the sun will rise, stand alone and greet the coming night in the last remaining light.

I overcame a lot of obstacles in my life and in my childhood.

Hope is definitely not the same thing as optimism. It is not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

You can't choose the ways in which you'll be tested.

Everybody has their struggles.

The truth is, we all face hardships of some kind, and you never know the struggles a person is going through. Behind every smile, there's a story of a personal struggle.

Never lose hope under adverse situations.

Sometimes you find your strongest faith in the darkest corners.

When your back is against the wall, and you feel like you're losing faith and hope because so many things are coming at you at once, hold on.

I believe that no matter what you believe, you're going to go through hard times.