Quotes about Hope

He Himself has been praying for me all along: "He is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them" (Heb. 7:25, NIV).

He has promised that our suffering will one day turn into glory if we'll respond to it in faith and obedience.

I must teach you to long for something better...For my uncontrollable longings for this man, Lord --- Your strength.

But I can say that I know the One who knows. And I've come to see that it's through the deepest suffering that God has taught me the deepest lessons. And if we'll trust Him for it, we can come through to the unshakable assurance that He's in charge. He has a loving purpose. And He can transform something terrible into something wonderful. Suffering is never for nothing.

It was he who told her of the three inscriptions over the doors of the Milan Cathedral. One, with a carving of roses, says, "All that pleases is but for a moment"; another, with a carving of a cross, says, "All that grieves is but for a moment"; and over the great central door are only the words, "Nothing is important but that which is eternal.

How we long to point to something - anything - and say This works! This is sure! But if it is something other than God Himself we are destined for disappointment.

We need Jesus Christ, our refuge, our fortress, the stronghold of my life. It takes desolation to teach us our need of Him.

Like the sparrow, I've got a song to sing. Unlike the sparrow, I must sing mine by faith.

Strange—or is it?—that childish hopes should be answered in the will of God for this now?

When our plans are interrupted, His are not. God's plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always - including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable - toward the goal of true maturity.

Nothing that comes to me is void of divine purpose. In seeking to see the whole with God's eyes, we can find the peace which human events so often destroy.

As you grow stronger, it may return from time to time, but that is how grief works.