Quotes about Hope

While it's easy to believe the worst, God wants you to believe the best. He never promises a trouble-free life of leisure, but he does promise never to leave you and always to love you.

Instead of drifting away from God, you'll be firmly anchored, able to swim against the tide, offering living water to all you meet.

What do you do when you're in the valley? You remember what God has done. When he comforted you. When he guided you. When he answered your prayer exactly the way you wanted him to. And when he didn't do what you wanted, but sometime later you realized it was exactly what you needed. And you dare to believe that what he's done before, he will do again.

Pain in the moment, and hope for the future. But sometimes the pain seems to yell, while hope only whispers.

God wants to renew our hearts and minds and to send us into his world as lights shining in the darkness. Like Peter, we can become convinced of the truth: namely, that we are not our sins. And we're also not what others have done to us.

God loves you so much that he's searching the wild, dark night to save you. He's moving all his furniture and tearing up the carpet simply to reach you. God is watching every moment of every day, waiting for you to return home, and when you're yet only a dot on the horizon, he'll sprint toward you, his arms flung wide and a joyous grin lighting his face.

Once a broken bone heals, it is often strongest at the point of the fracture. In the same way, God can take the shame of past failures and amazingly redirect their outcomes toward your future success.

By God's grace, he found me and saved me.

Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.

To really know God, you have to wrestle through pain, struggle with honest doubts, and even live with unanswered questions. So while I won't promise you that God is your copilot or that the Bible says it and that settles it, I will promise you this: if you wrestle with him, seek him, cling to him, God will meet you in your pain.

Pause for a moment and prayerfully consider your response: What breaks your heart?

Though Satan makes strong men weak, God is in the business of making weak men strong. Your past isn't the most important thing. Your future is.