Best 275 quotes in «encouraging quotes» category

Even a smile can help a lonely soul!

Find your bones. Believe in what you are.

~ Faith lightens the path your shadowed mind has to walk ~

Forgiveness is a skill gained by those willing to change.

Everything is within your power, and your power is within you.

God knew He had to create you in a way that would suit your story.

God has an amazing plan for your life and what you're going through now is a part of it! Whether you're suffering with depression, anxiety or just going through a difficult time, it's for the best! God will use your past to help people in the future!

God never said that the journey will be easy, but he did said that the arrival will be worthwhile

For within your flesh, deep within the center of your being, is the undaunted, waiting, longing, all-knowing. Is the ready, able, perfect. Within you, waiting its turn to emerge, piece by piece, with the dawn of every former test of trial and blackness, is the next unfolding, the great unfurling of wings, the re-forged backbone of a true Child of Light.

Hope is one of our central emotions, but we are often at a loss when asked to define it. Many of us confuse hope with optimism, a prevailing attitude that "things turn out for the best." But hope differs from optimism. Hope does not arise from being told to "Think Positively," or from hearing an overly rosy forecast. Hope, unlike optimism, is rooted in unalloyed reality. Although there is no uniform definition of hope, I found on that seemed to capture what my patients had taught me. Hope is the elevating feeling we experience when we see - in the mind's eye- a path to a better future. Hope acknowledges the significant obstacles and deep pitfalls along that path. True hope has no room for delusion.

God's agenda is so glorious, and His love and purposes for our lives are so great, that everything else pales in comparison. We should all be like Nehemiah, who, when the enemies of Israel tried to get him to come out of the city and talk with them on the Plain of Ono, said, "...I am doing a great work and I cannot come down. Why should the work cease while I leave it and go down to you?

Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience.

If there is any period one would desire to be born in, ⎯ is it not the age of Revolution; when the old and the new stand side by side, and admit of being compared; when the energies of all men are searched by fear and by hope; when the historic glories of the old, can be compensated by the rich possibilities of the new era? This time, like all times, is a very good one, if we but know what to do with it.

If we throw blankets over our children's dreams, we darken their world and extinguish their desire to live.

If you believe in your dream with all your heart, you can achieve it.

If you take a look around this great big world, every beautiful thing that you see God created.

If you take society’s definition of knowing oneself, you will become lost in the many translations.

If you walked away from a toxic, negative, abusive, one-sided, dead-end low vibrational relationship or friendship — you won.

It is not so much about fighting against the ego; it is more about harmonizing with it.

I tried to hold fire once...see from a distance it mesmerized me captivated me for hours at a time The more it danced with the wind, I felt my body sway to its rhythm I tried to hold fire once It's glow drew me in closer And although I know full well the damage that fire can do... Staring directly at it, I know it's beauty too It's warmth was now on my face and I couldn't imagine being in any other place I reached out with my bare hands & it danced even more And suddenly I felt it's heat deep within my core Rising like a volcano ready to erupt But somehow balanced & purposeful I tried to hold fire once until I realized that fire held me Passionately and I was it's guiding force. If you look close enough, you'll see it dancing in my eyes, feel it in my touch, even hear it in my voice...but don't ever forget that fire consumes and cannot be contained so I must master my energetic output to control the flames.

Let’s strive to become as protective over our time with God as we are with our daily cup of brew. Let’s become addicted to our “spiritual caffeine fix.

God transformed the darkest day humankind had ever known into a new sunrise, and He can transform our darkest days into new birth as well.

I am a mirror. I can choose to reflect for someone: that they matter, their inner beauty, an acceptance of their feelings, an understanding of their experience.

If you look inside, that which is said to be 'hard to find;' you may find that it was plainer to see than ever dreamed!!

I honor you for every time this year you: got back up vibrated higher shined your light and loved and elevated beyond —the call of duty.

It is essential that justice be done, it is equally vital that justice not be confused with revenge, for the two are wholly different.

...hope is never wasted. Even if what I hoped for did not come to fruition as I had imagined, as I had hoped. Hope is placing the beautifully vulnerable parts of ourselves, our raw selves, into His hands. I believe hope moves His heart; but hope also moves our hearts into His hands. Hope builds trust.

Maybe when we face a tragedy, someone, somewhere is preventing a bigger tragedy from happening.

Life is uncertain, we can only hope.

Music promotes spiritual, physical and emotional well-being.

Numbers 12: 6 - 8 When there is a prophet among you, I, the Lord, reveal myself to them in visions, I speak to them in dreams. But this is not true of my servant Moses; he is faithful in all my house. With him I speak face to face, clearly and not in riddles; he sees the form of the Lord. So, unless you're Moses, this verse makes it obvious that God will not always speak clearly. Often he speaks softly and in riddles. He will reveal something supernaturally to us, but it's always something we need to pay close attention to. We usually need to then carefully interpret and apply what we hear. We are convinced that God's motivation behind this - as with all he does - is to draw us into relationship.

People are like lights. Some are colored lights and draw attention to themselves. Others are clear lights. They shine on people in around them.

People’s love for us may change, depending on what we do or don’t do to please them. But God’s does not—it’s everlasting.

Never let a man take up so much of your insides that he pushes YOU out. You shouldn't have to go looking for yourself when a relationship ends.

Positive thinking is powerful thinking. If you want happiness, fulfillment, success and inner peace, start thinking you have the power to achieve those things. Focus on the bright side of life and expect positive results.

Saving money won't get us rich. You have to spend it to get it.

Read. Read until your eyes are sore. Then read some more.

Open your box of blessings and take out something to smile about.

Revive your inner spirit! Break free from all things weighing you down, grab hold of your strong rope and lift yourself out of hopelessness!

Shout out to everyone transcending a mindset, mentality, desire, belief, emotion, habit, behavior or vibration, that no longer serves them.

Seek to know God and thy sacred self.

Stop focusing on your past mistakes. Don’t be ashamed of the things that you’ve done. We ALL have made mistakes. Don’t you see? All of those things helped shape you into the beautiful person that you are today! Hold your head up high because you didn’t allow your past mistakes to consume you. You learned! You conquered! You became a better YOU. Be proud of who you are TODAY!

Surrendering is not giving up--it is gaining strength.

Tatakae!

Taking care of yourself will take care of more than yourself.

The Lord will never forsake you. His presence is always with you everywhere you may go.

The inferior put others down; the superior lift others up; the great are an asset to themselves and the world.

The phrase “timing is everything” is never more true than in your walk with God—HIS timing is everything.

The quality of your relationships will determine the quality of your life. And this is something worth praying about.

Struggle is like a tunnel in the road of life; you have to enter, you have to come out.