You might not always get what you want, but you always get what you expect.

The rallying call to people is to give them hope. When you have hope, that's huge.

All you need do is ask, Jennia Beth Gibbs. No sense making a thief of yourself, now is there? You keep it . . . and remember that no matter how many wrong choices we've made in the past, we can always decide to make the right ones today. The past need not determine one moment of the future.

Those who mourn sense the rupture of a world severed from God and thus edge closer to the Father who promises to make all things new.

Faith has to do with things that are not seen and hope with things that are not in hand.

As another year ends, no doubt you have had your share of joys and disappointments. Don't live in the past, but "be patient and stand firm, because the Lord's coming is near" (James 5:8 NIV).

We ain't goin' study war no more.

The heritage mattered, but the hope was all-important—hope for a new world, for the One God to become king at last.

Difficult and painful as it is, we must walk on in the days ahead with an audacious faith in the future.

I still have a dream today that one day war will come to an end, that men will beat their swords into plowshares and their spears into pruning hooks, that nations will no longer rise up against nations, neither will they study war any more.

Our hope concerning the future is great, and our faith is strong. We know we've scarcely scratched the surface of that which will come to pass in the years that lie ahead.

people who believe in the resurrection, in God making a whole new world in which everything will be set right at last, are unstoppably motivated to work for that new world in the present.