Quotes about Encouragement

Let us seek friends that will stir up our prayers, our Bible reading, our use of time, and our salvation.

Cheer up, keep your spirits high, things are bound to get better!

And as it turns out, if one person is praying for you, buckle up. Things can happen.

It's incredibly touching when someone who seems so hopeless finds a few inches of light to stand in and makes everything work as well as possible. All of us lurch and fall, sit in the dirt, are helped to our feet, keep moving, feel like idiots, lose our balance, gain it, help others get back on their feet, and keep going.

This is who I want to be in the world. This is who I think we are supposed to be, people who help call forth human beings from deep inside hopelessness.

This is all that restoration requires most of the time, that one person not give up.

All it takes is one safe person to listen, to hear, to noodge us to start over and not give up.

God didn't give us His Word to use like a weapon or some kind of Hallmark card we can pass across the fence and keep some distance. It is a weapon, but one designed for use against our enemy, not against our sisters. It is meant for encouragement, not for pat answers in the midst of real pain. Just because something is true doesn't mean you must voice that truth in all circumstances.

You are not alone. You are not alone. No matter how you feel, God's Word would never lie. You are not alone!

of God's promise that disappointment will lead to hope.

Every knock is a boost.

My father turned my life around insisting I be more than I was and by believing I could be more.