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Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful QUOTES

Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful QUOTES

1 " I think of the privilege it is to be able to speak life over these hurting people and believe in new life for them as we strive to love them the way we've been loved by Christ, the privilege it is to watch His faithfulness unfold in their stories. "

― , Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful

2 " Too often we want clarity and God wants us to come closer. "

― , Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful

3 " It is a bit of a mess, this business of love. As more and more people enter our lives, we are left with no choice but to enter theirs as well. Even more so, over time their pains become our pain and their joys become our joy and this sharing of the Gospel becomes a sharing of life. This, at first glance, seems so burdensome, so overwhelming, but somehow I have found it to not be any longer. Something about shouldering the burdens of another brings a lightness to our own affliction. We are in it together, and Christ is in it with us. "

― , Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful

4 " It is a bit of a mess, this business of love. As more and more people enter our lives, we are left with no choice but to enter theirs as well. Even more so, over time their pains become our pain and their joys become out joy and this sharing of the Gospel becomes a sharing of life. This, at first glance, seems so burdensome, so overwhelming, but somehow I have found it to not be any longer. Something about shouldering the burdens of another brings a lightness to our own affliction. We are in it together, and Christ is in it with us. "

― Katie Davis Majors, , Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful

5 " When we cannot find joy in our circumstances, we can find joy in God who is unchanged and unchanging. We can rejoice, not in what is going on around or within us, but because God is our strength and He will continue to be. "

― , Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful

6 " Sometimes the things we would never pick for our lives gives us opportunities to receive God's provision, to see Him working in ways we otherwise might not experience. "

― , Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful

7 " And the more I knew my feebleness, my flaws, and my shortcomings, the more I knew His gentleness toward me, His tender glance, His strong and loving shoulder that was always available to lean on. "

― , Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful

8 " God sees you and me in our pain and our brokenness. He sees you walking a difficult path when the sun goes down and your life is a far cry from that which you expected or dreamed up. He sees you, dear friend, when the ending of the story is not the one that you yearned for and your prayers seem unanswered and it all just feels like a bit of a mess. He wants to name these places The Lord Will Provide. In the places where you thought life might be easier, when you thought things might be different, when you thought you might be better, be more, God provides His Son who meets you and provides grace for your gaps and light in your darkness. "

― , Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful

9 " Slowly, I was beginning to understand that it wasn’t my productivity that God desired; it was my heart. It wasn’t my ministry God loved; it was me. God was glorified, is glorified, when we give Him our hearts, give Him ourselves, and faithfully do the thing right in front of us, no matter how small or trivial. "

― , Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful

10 " As time passes, I realize more and more how conditioned I have been to be ashamed of my weakness. Somehow it is okay to attend to the brokenness in the lives of others, but to admit to brokenness in our own homes, even in our own hearts? We have been told that this is downright embarrassing. What we know to be true, though, as we dig into Scripture, is that God is not ashamed of our weakness. He is not ashamed of it, because He can use even this to glorify Himself. "

― , Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful

11 " This is the sin of the Israelites, of all humankind really, this slowness to remember all that He has done as we stare intently at what He hasn't done yet, what He might not do. "

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12 " It is a bit of a mess, this business of love. As more and more people enter our lives, we are left with not choice but to enter theirs as well. Even more so, over time their pains become our pain and their joys become our joy and this sharing of the Gospel becomes a sharing of life. This, at first glance, seems so burdensome, so overwhelming, but somehow I have found it not to be any longer. Something about shouldering the burdens of another brings a lightness to our own affliction. We are in it together, and Christ is in it with us. "

― , Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful

13 " The angel had said to Mary, "Blessed is she who has believed that the Lord would fulfill his promises to her!" And this blessing isn't always what we think- the happy ending we wanted and the desires of our hearts fulfilled. "

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14 " It is a brave thing to hope, to continue in hope, knowing that God might say yes but that He could say no, and choosing to praise Him anyway. "

― , Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful

15 " Hope is a crazy thing, a courageous thing. Faith is a bold, irrational choice. "

― , Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful

16 " He may move you somewhere across the world. Or he may move you to believe again, to dare again, to reach out again. But if the steadying love of Christ moves you, it will move you out into the world with the bravest hope. He will move you to hope for what seem like impossible things, because His closeness is your most cherished thing. "

― , Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful

17 " We both look at that leg and see so much more than new skin.

We see Jesus.

He met us right there on the cold, hard cement floor of my sunroom with our festering wounds and our messy hearts. He took two broken people and showed us the scars on His hands and whispered that it was okay if we had our scars too, because the scars were always meant to draw us into His glory. "

― , Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful

18 " God, who did not spare His own Son, will provide what we need, when we need it, even when we do not know what we need or that we need "

― , Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful

19 " At the end of time, all that will count is that we lived the Gospel with our very lives, that we paid attention to the people God gave us and dwelt knowledgeably and hospitably in the place to which He called us. "

― , Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful

20 " You are doing something great with your life—when you are doing all the small things with His great love. You are changing the world—when you are changing one person’s world. You aren’t missing your best life—when you aren’t missing opportunities to love like Christ. "

― , Daring to Hope: Finding God's Goodness in the Broken and the Beautiful