Quotes about Hope

The Gospel, expressing Jewish understanding and hope, was a Jewish invention.

Everybody in this life has their challenges and difficulties. That is part of our mortal test... Peace comes through hope.

For the first time in the history of our country the majority of our people believe that the next five years will be worse than the past five years.

Salvation is not the stopping point; it is the starting point.

Without concrete signs of divine presence in the lives of the poor, the gospel becomes simply an opiate; rather than liberating the powerless from humiliation and suffering, the gospel becomes a drug that helps them adjust to this world by looking for "pie in the sky.

The gospel of Jesus is not a rational concept to be explained in a theory of salvation, but a story about God's presence in Jesus' solidarity with the oppressed, which led to his death on the cross. What is redemptive is the faith that God snatches victory out of defeat, life out of death, and hope out of despair.

Suffering naturally gives rise to doubt. How can one believe in God in the face of such horrendous suffering as slavery, segregation, and the lynching tree? Under these circumstances, doubt is not a denial but an integral part of faith. It keeps faith from being sure of itself. But doubt does not have the final word. The final word is faith giving rise to hope.

For I am sure that neither death, nor life, nor angels, nor principalities, nor things present, nor things to come, nor powers, nor height, nor depth, nor anything else in all creation, will be able to separate us from the love of God in Christ Jesus our Lord.

When Satan tries to remind us of our past (failures and sins), we're to remind him of his future (ultimate destruction).

Faith is being sure of what we hope for and certain of what we do not see.

Our hearts are wired for worship, and our worship is directly tied to our sense of hope.

When we pray, we are speaking to the One Whose eternal purpose and designs are unfolding as our present realities. In order to find hope in them, we must seek HIM and HIS perspective. This requires a keen understanding of the redemptive nature of our existence, which points to the glorious gospel of Christ.