Quotes about Hope

The Christian always has reason to celebrate. When we fail, celebrate His grace. When we are blessed, celebrate His mercy. When others reject us, celebrate His love.

And life (or God) seems to reply, "Get ready! The other shoe is going to drop. When? I want to surprise you.

When you can't figure Me out, you will give up the illusion of predictability and control and discover the joy and freedom of hope.

That level of honesty is reserved for the counseling office. Church is too often a place of pretense and therefore a place without hope. When brokenness is disdained, where the real story is never told, the power of God is not felt. Where brokenness is invited and received with grace, the gospel comes alive with hope.

Mor had said she would pray for them. One side of Signe's mind said, Bosh, a waste of time. But the other side, the one that grew up praying and believing that God was indeed real and in His heaven, that He cared about His people here on earth and listened to their cries—that part fought to break free from the chest where she had banished it.

big house to the slave quarters was nothing short of miraculous as far as

things hoped for, the assurance of things unseen." "We must have faith." Kaaren closed the book in her lap. "Ja, we must," Ingeborg acknowledged. But

Knowing in her head that God knew of His plans for her and convincing her heart were two different things.

Some of the greatest blessings take a long time in coming, as God works out His plans.

Does God care if I'm sad? Look at the tear-streaked face of Jesus as he stands near Lazarus's tomb.

The moral arc of the universe bends at the elbow of justice.

The curious beauty of African music is that it uplifts even as it tells a sad tale. You may be poor, you may have only a ramshackle house, you may have lost your job, but that song gives you hope.