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    Dallas Willard
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    Isaiah 40:31, Philippians 4:13, Joshua 1:9, Hebrews 12:1-2, 2 Timothy 1:7, Ephesians 6:10-11
    This is an age for spiritual heroes—a time for men and women to be heroic in faith and in spiritual character and power. The greatest danger to the Christian church today is that of pitching its messa...

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    Helen Keller
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    Matthew 17:20, Luke 1:37, Ephesians 3:20, Philippians 4:13, Mark 11:24, 2 Corinthians 4:18
    Hope sees the invisible, feels the intangible, and achieves the impossible.

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    Nelson Mandela
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    Jeremiah 29:11, Isaiah 41:10, 2 Timothy 1:7, Romans 8:15, Psalm 27:1, Philippians 4:6-7
    May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

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    Fredrick Langbridge
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    2 Corinthians 4:17-18, Hebrews 11:1, Isaiah 40:31, Romans 5:3-5, Lamentations 3:22-23, Psalm 42:11, Philippians 4:8
    Because of this we have hope: Two men look out through the same bars One sees mud, one sees stars.

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    Jonathan Sacks
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    Philippians 4:13, 1 Peter 1:3, Hebrews 10:23, Isaiah 40:31, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, Psalm 27:14, Romans 5:3-5
    It takes no courage to be an optimist, but it takes a great deal of courage to have hope.

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    Viktor E. Frankl
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    Matthew 5:10, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, James 2:15-17, Hebrews 13:3, Matthew 25:35-36, Philippians 4:12-13
    We who lived in concentration camps can remember the men who walked through the huts comforting others, giving away their last piece of bread. They may have been few in number, but they offer sufficie...

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    Miguel de Cervantes
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    Psalm 27:4, Philippians 4:8, Genesis 1:31, Isaiah 61:3, Ecclesiastes 3:11, Proverbs 31:30, Psalm 45:11
    It is the prerogative and charm of beauty to win hearts.

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    Seth Godin
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    Jeremiah 29:11, Philippians 4:13, Proverbs 16:3, Romans 8:28, Galatians 6:7-8
    The myth seems to be that you’re born with some magic combination of parents, DNA, and lucky breaks, and they conspire to determine what you accomplish in life. Nonsense. And a good thing, too, becaus...

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    Laura Sobiech
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    Romans 8:18, Philippians 4:6-7, Psalm 30:5, 1 Peter 5:10, James 1:2-4, Isaiah 61:3, Romans 5:3-5
    “[Zach] had gone from seeing beauty in the midst of suffering to creating it. He had taken this thing that could have suffocated him with despair and stripped it down until all that was left was hope....

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    Langston Hughes
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    Ephesians 3:20, Psalm 126:5, Isaiah 40:31, Hebrews 11:1, Philippians 4:13, Psalm 37:4
    Hold fast to dreams, for if dreams die, life is a broken-winged bird that cannot fly.

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    Will Durant
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    Proverbs 4:23, Daniel 6:3-4 , Exodus 35:30-35, Philippians 4:8, Colossians 3:23-24 , Psalm 1:1-3
    Excellence is an art won by training and habituation: we not act rightly because we have virtue or excellence, but rather have these because we have acted rightly; these virtues are formed in man by d...

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    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
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    John 16:33, Proverbs 24:10, 1 Peter 5:10, Isaiah 40:31, Philippians 4:13, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9, Romans 5:3-5
    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...

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    Barbara Kingsolver
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    2 Thessalonians 2:16-17, Philippians 4:6-7, Psalm 23:3, 2 Corinthians 4:16, Romans 15:13, Psalm 30:5, Isaiah 40:31
    Hope is a renewable option: If you run out of it at the end of the day, you get to start over in the morning.

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    A. W. Tozer
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    Matthew 17:20, Matthew 19:20, Mark 10:27, Luke 1:37, Luke 18:27, Colossians 3:23-24, 1 Corinthians 15:58, Ephesians 2:10, Philippians 4:13, Philippians 2:13
    God is looking for people through whom He can do the impossible. What a pity that we plan only the things we can do by ourselves.

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    Corrie Ten Boom
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    Psalm 46:10, Hebrews 13:8, Philippians 4:6-7, Romans 8:28, Psalm 37:5
    Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.

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    C. S. Lewis
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    Philippians 4:13, 1 Peter 2:9, Colossians 3:10, Hebrews 11:1, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Galatians 2:20, Romans 10:9
    We are what we believe we are.

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    Aleksandr I. Solzhenitsyn
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    Isaiah 43:19, Song of Solomon 4:7, Philippians 4:8, 2 Corinthians 4:16, Ecclesiastes 3:11, Psalm 147:3, Isaiah 61:3
    If the too obvious, too straight branches of Truth and Good are crushed or amputated and cannot reach the light—yet perhaps the . . . unexpected branches of Beauty will make their way through and soar...

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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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    Deuteronomy 30:19, Psalm 118:24, Philippians 4:6-7, Matthew 6:34, Jeremiah 29:11
    Trust no future, howe’er pleasant!  Let the dead Past bury its dead!  Act,—act in the living present!  Heart within, and God o’erhead!

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    N. T. Wright
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    1 Peter 3:11, Philippians 4:8, Romans 12:18, Micah 6:8, Psalm 34:18, James 1:27, Isaiah 61:1-2
    When God wants to sort out the world, as the Beatitudes in the Sermon on the Mount make clear, he doesn’t send in the tanks. He sends in the meek, the broken, the justice hungry, the peacemakers, the ...

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    A. W. Tozer
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    Philippians 4:6-7, Isaiah 26:3-4, 2 Corinthians 5:7, Matthew 6:33, Psalm 37:5
    The man of pseudo faith will fight for his verbal creed but refuse flatly to allow himself to get into a predicament where his future must depend upon that creed being true. He always provides himself...

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    Jerry Bridges
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    Philippians 4:19, Matthew 10:29-31, Psalm 10:17, 2 Corinthians 1:3-4, Hebrews 12:10
    Five fatherly responsibilities that God has assumed toward His children: 1. God provides for us (Phil. 4:19). 2. God protects (Mt. 10:29-31). 3. God encourages us (Psm. 10:17). 4. God comforts us (2 C...

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    Karl Barth
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    Matthew 1:23, Matthew 28:20, Luke 2:10-11, John 10:11, Isaiah 41:10, Matthew 14:22-33, Philippians 4:5-7, Mark 2:1-12, John 14:16-17, Hebrews 13:5
    “He stands by you:” A drowning man cannot pull himself out of the water by his own hair. Neither can you do it. Someone else must rescue you. This is the good news of Christmas. He who stands by you a...

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    Thomas Manton
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    Philippians 4:12
    Great resolutions are always vain, unless joined with the consideration of our own weakness. The people of God have promised much, but always it is with the concurrence of Christ. The apostle saith, P...

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    Oswald Chambers
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    Isaiah 64:8, Philippians 4:6-7, Isaiah 40:31, Psalm 37:5, Matthew 6:31-33, Proverbs 3:5-6, Romans 8:28
    Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken “toys,” but as our Father.”

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    Howard Thurman
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    Matthew 28:18-20, Luke 4:18-19, Luke 15:3-7, Matthew 11:28-30, Matthew 25:35-40, Galatians 5:13, Matthew 5:9, John 13:34-35, Philippians 4:4-7, Matthew 5:14-16
    When the song of the angels is stilled, when the star in the sky is gone, when the kings and princes are home, when the shepherds are back with the flocks, then the work of Christmas begins: to find t...

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    Neil Postman
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    Philippians 4:8, Exodus 32:, Ecclesiastes 12:13, Matthew 19:16-30, Proverbs 4:23, Romans 12:2, 1 John 2:15-17
    Orwell feared we would become a captive culture. Huxley feared that we would become a trivial culture. . . . Orwell feared that what we hate will ruin us. Huxley feared that what we love will ruin us.

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    Annie Johns Flint
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    Exodus 16:1-36, 2 Corinthians 11:23-30, Matthew 14:13-21, 1 Kings 17:7-16, Lamentations 3:22-23, Philippians 4:19, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10
    When we have exhausted our store of endurance, When our strength has failed ere that day is half done, When we reach the end of our hoarded resources, Our Father’s full giving has only begun. His lo...

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    Gerard Manley Hopkins
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    Hebrews 12:2, Romans 5:1, Philippians 4:6-7, Isaiah 64:6, Psalm 51:10, 1 John 1:8-9
    Myself unholy, from myself unholy to the sweet living of my friends I look—eye-greeting doves bright-counter to the rook, fresh sand to salt sand-teasing waters shoaly:—and they are purér, but alas! n...

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    Richard Cecil
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    Psalm 46:1, Philippians 4:13, Psalm 23:4, 1 Peter 1:6-7, James 1:2-3, Hebrews 11:1, Romans 8:28
    Faith makes all evil good to us, and all good better; unbelief makes all good evil, and all evil worse. Faith laughs at the shaking of the spear; unbelief trembles at the shaking of a leaf, unbelief s...

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    Andrew M. Davis
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    1 Peter 3:15, Philippians 4:6-7, Romans 15:13, James 1:2-3, 2 Corinthians 12:9-10
    It is no stretch to say that the Lord may orchestrate amazingly challenging circumstances for you and your family for the primary purpose of giving your supernatural hope and Christian contentment a p...
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