Quotes about Hope

So, leveraging Jesus' teaching on love, Paul gives us the grown-up version of what love really is. Love is patient, love is kind. It does not envy, it does not boast, it is not proud. It does not dishonor others, it is not self-seeking, it is not easily angered, it keeps no record of wrongs. Love does not delight in evil but rejoices with the truth. It always protects, always trusts, always hopes, always perseveres. Love never fails. (1 Cor 13:4 — 8)

But I'm not sitting around praying for revival either. I grew up in the "pray for revival" culture.

You're worse than you thought, but God loves you more than you imagined.

This is what the LORD says: "When seventy years are completed for Babylon, I will come to you and fulfill my good promise to bring you back to this place. For I know the plans I have for you," declares the LORD, "plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future. Then you will call on me and come and pray to me, and I will listen to you.

When our faith is down for the count, we need people who will speak truth to us, friends who will remind us of God's past faithfulness. We need people who will draw our attention outside of the realm of our immediate circumstances, people to put our circumstances in their proper context.

The courage to dream always precedes the capital needed to finance the dream.

Vision is a clear mental picture of what could be, fueled by the conviction that it should be.

So you see, that's why we ask the question: In light of my past experience, in light of my current circumstances, in light of my future hopes and dreams—regardless of where that leads—if I was wise, what would I do?

Our tendency is to pray for miracles. But in most situations, it is more appropriate to pray for opportunities.

Prayer takes us well beyond human possibilities.

I made a conscious decision to believe. Every day. I keep deciding to believe.

It is incomprehensible grace to be a prodigal who is held by God again.