Hope is impossible to drown; just when you think it has sunk to the bottom, up it pops in another location.
02205 – You Can’t Drown Hope
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02184 – Decision for Hope
The decision for hope rests on what we believe at the deepest levels — what our most basic convictions are about the world and about God and about the future. We choose hope, not as a naïve wish, but as a choice with our eyes wide open to the reality of the world and...
02167 – Holding onto Hope Despite Disappointment
Reflecting...has led me to think that hope and disappointment are part of the same faith perspective. Without hope rooted in a vision of possibility, there would not be the experience of disappointment. As the saying goes, “Expect little, and you will be much less...
02166 – What Hope is, is Not
Hope is never calibrated to the fervor of optimism or the distress of pessimism. Hope is fixed to a larger horizon and rooted in an expansive memory. Hope cannot be auctioned off to the highest bidder; cannot be put up for collateral; cannot be traded on the big board...
02122 – Wait & Watch & Work
Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up.
02086 – Just Passing Through
When we remember that we are just passing through, we are less apt to place our hope in our earthly dwellings.
02079 – The Ecstacy of True Hope
[W]e can never know the ecstasy of true hope without attending to the tragic realities of the poor and forgotten. from The Third Reconstruction: Moral Mondays, Fusion Politics, and the Rise of a New Justice Movement
02014 – By the Grace of God
I am not the man I ought to be,I am not the man I wish to beand I am not the man I hope to be,but by the grace of God, I am not the man I used to be.---------------------Gender-inclusive version: I am not the person I ought to be,I am not the person I wish to beand I...
01966 – So, What Will We Do Tonight?
[1987 - extemporaneous response to someone's public objection of her being allowed to preach] While we are in this place debating about who can or cannot stand behind a piece of wood, there's a world out there. And the cries of that world are growing louder. There's a...
01955 – Hope & Influence
The one who carries the most hope carries the most influence.