Quotes about Hope

God will be faithful to deliver you, if you will be faithful to believe Him. It might not come in the manner or time you are expecting, but faith and patience birth the blessings:

grace for the race; grace for the place; and grace for the case.

Grace for the case is grace for your condition.

Life sometimes hurts like hell but I've discovered that deleting God from the equation doesn't actually help. It merely removes all meaning and morality from the mess, and all real hope from the future

So I'm waiting for God, and God is waiting for me to see if I am really waiting for him, and not just wanting things from him.

To be a Christian is to live positively and not destructively, to make ugly things beautiful, and to make chaos meaningful.

Augustine once said that God puts salt on our lips that we may thirst for him. Sometimes it's the salt of our tears.

God is not a mindless dispenser of demolition techniques; he is looking for relationship with those who dare to trust him against all other odds.

God uses young people again and again to help restore and shape the destiny of nations...Young people stand at the heart of the salvation story.

When we reach the point where things simply make no sense, when our thinking about God and life no longer line up, when any sense of certainty is gone, and when we can find no reason to trust God but we still do, well that is what trust looks like at its brightest — when all else is dark.

was learning to trust God enough (what a concept) to know that, like family (the Bible calls him "Father" after all), he will come through no matter what, that his love and commitment to me is deeper than how my brain happens to be processing information at any given moment, to trust that God will be with me, not despite the journey but precisely because I was trusting God enough to take it.

In the spiritual life, the opposite of fear is not courage, but trust.