Quotes about Hope
The captain approached him and said, “How can you sleep? Get up and call upon your God. Perhaps this God will consider us, so that we may not perish.”
— Jonah 1:6
From inside the fish, Jonah prayed to the LORD his God,
— Jonah 2:1
saying: “In my distress I called to the LORD, and He answered me. From the belly of Sheol I called for help, and You heard my voice.
— Jonah 2:2
For You cast me into the deep, into the heart of the seas, and the current swirled about me; all Your breakers and waves swept over me.
— Jonah 2:3
At this, I said, ‘I have been banished from Your sight; yet I will look once more toward Your holy temple.’
— Jonah 2:4
The waters engulfed me to take my life; the watery depths closed around me; the seaweed wrapped around my head.
— Jonah 2:5
To the roots of the mountains I descended; the earth beneath me barred me in forever! But You raised my life from the pit, O LORD my God!
— Jonah 2:6
As my life was fading away, I remembered the LORD. My prayer went up to You, to Your holy temple.
— Jonah 2:7
Who knows? God may turn and relent; He may turn from His fierce anger, so that we will not perish.”
— Jonah 3:9
And now, O LORD, please take my life from me, for it is better for me to die than to live.”
— Jonah 4:3
“On that day,” declares the LORD, “I will gather the lame; I will assemble the outcast, even those whom I have afflicted.
— Micah 4:6
And I will make the lame into a remnant, and the outcast into a strong nation. Then the LORD will rule over them in Mount Zion from that day and forever.
— Micah 4:7