Quotes about Hope
God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him.
— Philip Yancey
The One who had the right to destroy the world—and had nearly done so once in Noah's day—chose instead to love the world, at any cost.
— Philip Yancey
He transforms pain, using it to teach and strengthen us, if we allow it to turn us toward him.
— Philip Yancey
Where did Christians get the reputation as life-squelchers instead of life-enhancers? Jesus himself promised, I am come that they might have life, and that they might have it more abundantly. What keeps us from realizing that abundant life?
— Philip Yancey
Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is gooder than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all.
— Philip Yancey
We live on a planet that has been invaded by evil forces, and God's followers are called to be part of the solution.
— Philip Yancey
Viktor Frankl, who spent time in one of Hitler's camps, said, "Despair is suffering without meaning.
— Philip Yancey
As Solzhenitsyn elegantly expressed it in his classic One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, faith in God may not get you out of the camp, but it is enough to see you through each day.
— Philip Yancey
by embracing grief and standing beside the hurting person, we can indeed aid another's search for meaning.
— Philip Yancey
Where is God when it hurts? I have often asked. The answer is another question, Where is the church when it hurts?
— Philip Yancey
True hope is honest.
— Philip Yancey
Realistic hope permits a dying person to confront reality, but at the same time gives strength to go on living.
— Philip Yancey