Hope Heals Quotes

“Perhaps some detours aren’t detours at all. Perhaps they are actually the path.”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“He sees the entire picture, and HE DOES NOT MAKE MISTAKES. He knows this is part of the story He is writing for me, for my family, and for all of the creation He is making right. It is not a plan B, and I trust that.”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“What has happened to me is extreme; however, it is not that different from what everyone deals with. I am a sort of microcosm for what we all feel. I can barely walk, even with a cane, but who feels free even if they can? My face is paralyzed, but who feels beautiful even when they look normal? I have no coordination in my right hand, so I can’t hold things, even my child, but who feels like a competent parent even if all their faculties are intact? For months I could not eat, and even today I have difficulty swallowing, but who feels fully satisfied even if they can enjoy every delectable treat they desire? I am tired almost all the time now, but who always feels energized to engage fully in their life? My voice is messed up, but who feels understood even if they can speak plainly? I have double vision, but who sees everything clearly even if they can see normally? My future is uncertain, but whose isn’t? So”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“Don’t wait to celebrate the life you have been given, even if it looks different from the one you thought you would have.”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“How quickly we forget the miracles of our past as we step into an uncertain future, fearing we’ve used up our allotment of God’s provision and we’re all out of miracles.”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“I can give God the glory, and it can still hurt. I used to cry myself to sleep every night. But I have learned, above all other lessons, that healing for each of us is spiritual. We will be fully restored in heaven, but we are actually healed on earth right now. My experience has caused me to redefine healing and to discover a hope that heals the most broken places: our souls. What”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“I don’t think any of us can tell our most vulnerable stories in the moments they occur for fear that they may undo us. We have to wait until we are in a season of safety before we can open up our deepest wounds.”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“It was a surreal vision, a waking dream, a stark reminder that perhaps in the breaking of precious things, something even more precious than we can imagine might be unleashed. Perhaps in the breaking, we can find the healing we long for.”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“Could there be a more comforting thought than knowing you are being prayed for when your own prayers have been stretched to their breaking point?”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“If hope is only rooted in an outcome, then your expectations will crush you.”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“The call to give thanks, not at the end, but in the midst, began to reverberate inside us. We may never arrive at the ending we hoped for, so if we waited until then to celebrate all that had been given to us, that celebration might never come at all. We were learning, ever so slowly, the truth of what John Newton wrote: “All shall work together for good; everything is needful that He sends; nothing can be needful that He withholds.” We”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“I heard somewhere that challenges make you either bitter or beautiful (like Esther was, I suppose). Symbolically, with a face that was paralyzed on one side, I was choosing to be beautiful . . . gorgeous, in fact.”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“if we pray for patience, God doesn’t just give us patience; rather, He gives us opportunities to be patient. If we pray for courage, He gives us opportunities to be courageous.”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“In the gathering and in the praying and in the breaking of bread (or crust, as it were), the common elements were transubstantiated into a holy experience, as holy as any ancient cathedral or Communion because they were offered, not in the absence of suffering, but right in the midst of it.”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“I was learning that vulnerability and grief were love’s inevitable companions. I”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“We have learned that when everything else is gone, hope remains. Perhaps”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“I can give God the glory, and it can still hurt.”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“C. S. Lewis had it right: “To love at all is to be vulnerable. Love anything, and your heart will be wrung and possibly be broken.”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“God had never promised us an end to our struggles—not on this earth. As much as we longed for an end to the pain, as much as we wanted to cling to some artificial agreement that would give us a pass or a privilege because of all we had endured, we knew to do so was not only fruitless but missed the point. Did we want what He gives or did we want Him? Did we want the deliverance from the hurt or did we want the Deliverer of hope?”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“we settled into a new life, we were finding hope in who God is and who He would be in the midst of our pain. Yet this moment revealed the invisible fine print I had tacked on to our “agreement” with God moving forward. It read something like this: Due to the extreme nature of our suffering, especially at such a young age, the quota on suffering in our lives has been met, and no further suffering will be required.”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“had allowed us to experience. As Katherine recovered and we settled into a new life, we were finding hope in who God is and who He would be in the midst of our pain. Yet this moment revealed the invisible fine print I had tacked on to our “agreement” with God moving forward. It read something like this: Due to the extreme nature of our suffering, especially at such a young age, the quota on suffering in our lives has been met, and no further suffering will be required.”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“There was no singular moment when I decided to stay in my marriage. It was more the accumulation of each day’s choice to stay, of each day’s intention to find awe and empathy and love”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“FAITH is an acronym for “Forsaking All, I Trust Him.”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“I have come to realize that believing in God is not possible without also believing God. He says He is my hope and strength, and I am taking Him at His word.”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“We began to recognize in our own hearts places where we were actually expecting more out of life and of recovery—better outcomes–than we were expecting out of God. As we intentionally and prayerfully offered up our fears, our purpose began to clarify. No matter what deaths, big or little, we would encounter in the year ahead, we felt empowered to live fully into this fragile existence with a newfound freedom, knowing that God would give us life in ways we could have never asked for or imagined.”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“There is something profound about hope, something so meaningful when you cling to what is beyond anything you know and understand. When that happens deep in your head and in your heart, something shifts. Hope heals.”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“You will see My goodness in the land of the living. Lean into this hope. Let it teach you how special you are. Most people will never go through this kind of hell on earth. I have chosen you. Live a life worthy of this special calling you have received.”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“Trust Me. I am working out EVERYTHING for your good. Don’t doubt this truth just because you are in darkness now. What’s true in the light is true in the dark.”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“Pain has been an instructor, teaching me deeper truths about myself and God and bringing me closer to Christ in a way I never was before this happened.”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals

“When we share our stories in real and messy ways, we give people permission to do the same, and in the sharing, we release some of the things that keep us trapped in our own isolated hotel rooms. We remember we are not alone. And that brings hope.”
― Katherine Wolf, Hope Heals