Quotes about Hope
Then he cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, have You also brought tragedy on this widow who has opened her home to me, by causing her son to die?”
— 1 Kings 17:20
Then he stretched himself out over the child three times and cried out to the LORD, “O LORD my God, please let this boy’s life return to him!”
— 1 Kings 17:21
Then Elijah took the child, brought him down from the upper room into the house, and gave him to his mother. “Look, your son is alive,” Elijah declared.
— 1 Kings 17:23
“Go and look toward the sea,” he said to his servant. So the servant went and looked, and he said, “There is nothing there.” Seven times Elijah said, “Go back.”
— 1 Kings 18:43
while he himself traveled on a day’s journey into the wilderness. He sat down under a broom tree and prayed that he might die. “I have had enough, LORD,” he said. “Take my life, for I am no better than my fathers.”
— 1 Kings 19:4
Now the men were looking for a sign of hope, and they quickly grasped at this word and replied, “Yes, your brother Ben-hadad.” “Go and get him!” said the king. Then Ben-hadad came out, and Ahab had him come up into his chariot.
— 1 Kings 20:33
For the LORD says, ‘You will not see wind or rain, but the valley will be filled with water, and you will drink—you and your cattle and your animals.’
— 2 Kings 3:17
So he asked, “Then what should be done for her?” “Well, she has no son,” Gehazi replied, “and her husband is old.”
— 2 Kings 4:14
And Elisha declared, “At this time next year, you will hold a son in your arms.” “No, my lord,” she said. “Do not lie to your maidservant, O man of God.”
— 2 Kings 4:16
But the woman did conceive, and at that time the next year she gave birth to a son, just as Elisha had told her.
— 2 Kings 4:17
After the servant had picked him up and carried him to his mother, the boy sat on her lap until noon, and then he died.
— 2 Kings 4:20
So he went in, closed the door behind the two of them, and prayed to the LORD.
— 2 Kings 4:33