romans on Positivity

Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is gooder than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good new...

Hope is the power of being cheerful in the presence of circumstances we know to be desperate.

It takes no courage to be an optimist, but it takes a great deal of courage to have hope.

Ray Johnston, in The Hope Quotient , shares a remarkable insight from a leading psychologist who had spent his career helping deeply troubled married couples rebuild their relationships after yea...

Hope is passion for what is possible.

Faith and pessimism are incompatible. To be sure, we are not starry-eyed idealists; we are down to earth realists. We know well that sin is ingrained in human nature and in human society. We are not e...

Life is 10% what happens to me and 90% of how I react to it.

After surveying an incredibly diverse cross section of college students across America, Donna Freitas found “the most pressing social media issues students face: the importance of appearing happy”—and...

Let everything happen to you: beauty and terror. Just keep going. No feeling is final.

The human body experiences a powerful gravitational pull in the direction of hope. That is why the patient's hopes are the physician's secret weapon. They are the hidden ingredients in any pre...

Now may the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that you may abound in hope, in the power of the Holy Spirit.

Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

Harry Emerson Fosdick once told how as a child, his mother sent him to pick a quart of raspberries. Reluctantly he dragged himself to the berry patch. His afternoon was ruined for sure. Then a thought...

We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

Goodness is beauty in the best estate.

A 2007 study conducted at Fuller Theological Seminary found patient people were less likely to suffer from depression. Patient people were found to be more grateful and expressed they felt more connec...

It’s part of the life cycle of every living thing to grow and mature. It’s also natural for us to hope that we will be better people today than we were yesterday and that the things that trouble us at...

Of all the virtues we can learn, no trait is more useful, more essential for survival, and more likely to improve the quality of life than the ability to transform adversity into an enjoyable challeng...

One sees great things from the valley; only small things from the peak.

Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

People by nature build, tear down, and rebuild. We build our hopes, get disappointed, and then search for renewed hope.

Attitude is an accurate monitor of where we fall on the spectrum of pride and humility.

May the God of hope fill us with all joy and peace in believing through the power of the Holy Spirit.

All the world is full of suffering. It is also full of overcoming.

Pastor: How good and pleasant it is when God’s people live together in unity!  For there the Lord bestows his blessing, People: even life forevermore.  Psalm 133: 1, 3b Pastor: Now...

Almost as important as oxygen for human survival is hope. According to Dr. Arnold Hutschnecker, “Since my early years as a physician, I learned that taking away hope is, to most people, like pronounci...

Because of this we have hope: Two men look out through the same bars One sees mud, one sees stars.

Joy is a net of love in which you can catch souls.

May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.