Quotes about Hope
I have never met the man I could despair of after discerning what lies in me apart from the grace of God.
— Oswald Chambers
Naturally, we are inclined to be so mathematical and calculating that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing...Certainty is the mark of the common-sense life. To be certain of God means that we are uncertain in all our ways, we do not know what a day may bring forth. This is generally said with a sigh of sadness; it should rather be an expression of breathless expectation.
— Oswald Chambers
God gives us the vision, then he takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience.
— Oswald Chambers
Leave the broken, irreversible past in God's hands, and step out into the invincible future with Him.
— Oswald Chambers
God's end is to enable me to see that he can walk on the chaos of my life just now.
— Oswald Chambers
Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken "toys," but as our Father.
— Oswald Chambers
The things we try to avoid and fight against—tribulation, suffering, and persecution—are the very things that produce abundant joy in us. "We are more than conquerors through Him" "in all these things"; not in spite of them, but in the midst of them. A saint doesn't know the joy of the Lord in spite of tribulation, but because of it. Paul said, "I am exceedingly joyful in all our tribulation" (2 Corinthians 7:4).
— Oswald Chambers
Let circumstances take you where they will, but keep drawing on the grace of God in whatever condition you may find yourself.
— Oswald Chambers
Never let the sense of past failure defeat your next step.
— Oswald Chambers
Build your hope on Him. No matter how many things seem to be pressing in on you, be determined to push them aside and look to Him. "Look to Me. . .
— Oswald Chambers
when we have the right relationship with God, life is full of spontaneous, joyful uncertainty and expectancy.
— Oswald Chambers
said—"Let not your heart be troubled." God will not keep your heart from being troubled. It is a command—"Let not.
— Oswald Chambers