Some of the quotes are fitting for Christians in our nation, several apply to my own life and personality (hello, Anne Frank - wow), and others I just really liked...
Anne Frank:
“I have one outstanding trait in my character, which must strike anyone who knows me for any length of time, and that is my knowledge of myself. I can watch myself and my actions, just like an outsider… entirely without prejudice, without making excuses for her, and watch what's good and what's bad about her. This 'self-consciousness' haunts me, and every time I open my mouth I know as soon as I've spoken whether 'that ought to have been different' or 'that was right as it was.' There are so many things about myself that I condemn, I couldn't begin to name them all… Sometimes I'm so deeply buried under self-reproaches that I long for a word of comfort to help me dig myself out again.”
“I finally realized that I must do my schoolwork to keep from being ignorant, to get on in life, to become a journalist, because that’s what I want! I know I can write... but it remains to be seen whether I really have talent... And if I don’t have the talent to write books or newspaper articles, I can always write for myself. But I want to achieve more than that. I can’t imagine living like Mother, Mrs. van Daan and all the women who go about their work and are then forgotten. I need to have something besides a husband and children to devote myself to… I want to go on living even after my death! And therefore I am grateful to God for this gift, this possibility of developing myself and of writing, of expressing all that is in me. I can shake off everything if I write; my sorrows disappear; my courage is reborn. But, and that is the great question, will I ever be able to write anything great, will I ever become a journalist or a writer?”
“I'm currently in the middle of a depression. I couldn't really tell you what set it off, but I think it stems from my cowardice, which confronts me at every turn.”
“Why do we trust one another so little? I know there must be a reason, but still I sometimes think it's horrible that you find you can never really confide in people, even in those who are nearest to you.”
“Writing in a diary is a really strange experience for someone like me. Not only because I’ve never written anything before, but also because it seems to me that later on neither I nor anyone else will be interested in the musings of a thirteen-year old school girl. Oh well, it doesn’t matter. I feel like writing.”
“Who has inflicted this upon us? Who has made us Jews different from all other people? Who has allowed us to suffer so terribly up till now? It is God that has made us as we are, but it will be God, too, who will raise us up again. If we bear all this suffering and if there are still Jews left, when it is over, then Jews, instead of being doomed, will be held up as an example. Who knows, it might even be our religion from which the world and all peoples learn good, and for that reason and that reason alone do we have to suffer now.”
“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart... I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
“It's really a wonder that I haven't dropped all my ideals, because they seem so absurd and impossible to carry out. Yet I keep them, because in spite of everything, I still believe that people are really good at heart... I don't think of all the misery, but of the beauty that still remains.”
Martin Luther King, Jr.:
“We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.”
"Nothing in the world is more dangerous than sincere ignorance and conscientious stupidity.”
“Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.”
A.W. Tozer:
“What comes into our minds when we think about God is the most important thing about us.”
"We might be wise to follow the insight of the enraptured heart rather than the more cautious reasoning of the theological mind.”
“The vague and tenuous hope that God is too kind to punish the ungodly has become a deadly opiate for the consciences of millions.”
Other:
“TO BE HOPEFUL in bad times is not just foolishly romantic. It is based on the fact that human history is a history not only of cruelty, but also of compassion, sacrifice, courage, kindness. What we choose to emphasize in this complex history will determine our lives. If we see only the worst, it destroys our capacity to do something. If we remember those times and places—and there are so many—where people have behaved magnificently, this gives us the energy to act, and at least the possibility of sending this spinning top of a world in a different direction."
~Howard Zinn
“I DON'T CARE!" Harry yelled at them... "I'VE HAD ENOUGH, I'VE SEEN ENOUGH, I WANT OUT, I WANT IT TO END, I DON'T CARE ANYMORE!"
"You do care," said Dumbledore. He had not flinched or made a single move to stop Harry demolishing his office. His expression was calm, almost detached. "You care so much you feel as though you will bleed to death with the pain of it.”
~J.K. Rowling
“It matters not what someone is born, but what they grow to be… It is our choices, Harry, that show us what we truly are, far more than our abilities… We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.”
~J.K. Rowling
“Oft hope is born when all is forlorn… There is some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.”
~J.R.R. Tolkien
“Anything under God's control is never out of control.”
~Charles R. Swindoll
~Charles R. Swindoll
God:
"It is your destruction, O Israel, that you have been against Me, for in Me is your help." ~Hosea 13:9
"Those who look to Him for help will be radiant with joy; no shadow of shame will darken their faces."
~Psalm 34:5
"So I pray that God, who gives you hope, will keep you happy and full of peace as you believe in Him. May you overflow with hope through the power of the Holy Spirit."
~Romans 15:13
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