Quotes about Hope

The issue that you may be facing or struggling with today may be an issue of the covenant. If it is, you are free to appeal to God.

Catastrophe is the time to run into God's arms, not away from them.

God will often allow us to be in a situation with no possible solution. This is so we can discover that He is our solution. He lets us hit rock bottom in order for us to learn that He is the Rock at the bottom. He'll put us between a rock and hard place—a situation that seems confusing, incongruent, and chaotic. And He will often do this when He's getting ready to reveal something new about Himself to us

That standard is Jesus Christ. He is our banner.

He certainly didn't need Abram and Sarai to help Him give them a child. After all, His name is El Shaddai—He is both the Creator and sustainer of life. And He loves to manifest Himself in the context of the impossible.

God will often allow us to be in a situation with no possible solution. This is so we can discover that He is our solution. He lets us hit rock bottom in order for us to learn that He is the Rock at the bottom.

I'm really fun. I'm ridiculously fun. I hope I'm infectiously fun.

As Søren Kierkegaard says in the opening pages of The Sickness unto Death (the sickness in question is despair): "Everything essentially Christian must have in its presentation a resemblance to the way a physician speaks at the sickbed.

On the Day of Atonement, the Levites performed the central sacrificial rites of the believing community, stewarding annual ceremonies that in graphic detail pictured the evil nature of sin and the bloody nature of divinely provided atonement for sin. The Day of Atonement was a visceral affair, filled with blood and fire and death and, at the pulsing core of it all, the realized hope of forgiveness through repentance. The people could be pure.

The truth is, Jesus didn't die for junk.

There is no circumstance that He can't change, no hand dealt to you with which He can't win, and no mistake so bad or sin so great that He can't fully restore you!

There really is no justice in a broken life!