Quotes about Hope

In 2005, The Color Purple became a phenomenally successful Broadway musical, playing to packed houses every night for over a year. In the process it transformed the "Great White Way" into a place where people of all colors, orientations and identities gathered to experience the show and to celebrate "God" as Life and Love, Perseverance, Hope, Creativity and Joy.

She say, Celie, tell the truth, have you ever found God in church? I never did. I just found a bunch of folks hoping for him to show. Any God I ever felt in church I brought in with me. And I think all the other folks did too. They come to church to share God, not find God.

I want you to tell them my little story, and then tell them the good news-that when you know Christ, you know there's something better coming.

We serve a prayer-hearing and a prayer-answering God, a wonder-working God!" he loved to say. "And answered prayer is one of the ways we experience him."

Or maybe he should always just expect the worst. Most often he would be right, and the few times he was not, at least he would be pleasantly surprised.

But for his grace, things could have turned out differently, many times.

My grandmother taught it to me when I was a little girl," Morris said as she blew down the desolate country road at more than eighty miles per hour. "She used to say, 'Jenny, God always knows what we need, and if we'll just trust him, he'll provide from the most unlikely of sources.

To me, we're marketing hope.

I have always believed in God.

Why don't you start believing that no matter what you have or haven't done, that your best days are still out in front of you.

You may never get to that perfect world that you're waiting for where everything's going to be perfect and you got that much money and your house paid off.

It's our faith that activates the power of God.