Quotes about Hope

A pearl of great price is our pain wrapped in God's perfection.

Crushing requires purification. Do you know anyone who would purify something they do not intend to use? Your crushing cannot be the end, because God would never purify you if He didn't intend to use you.

Ultimately everything God has ever said will come to pass. When we suffer loss like Eve did, we cannot allow past circumstances to abort future opportunity. If you have experienced loss in your life, God has a way of restoring things you thought you would never see again.

How do I know this? Because the Lord has made it clear: "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." (Jer. 29:11 NIV).

Remember that for every problem you face, Heaven has a divine prescription. God has a command of authority that you can bring against your present condition!

People tend to glorify the past, especially when they are struggling with the future.

Even in the moments of your greatest anguish, you often find unexpected blessings alongside and commingled with your losses.

Then pray. Because when women pray, God bring reconciliation into the darkness of this world.

Christ has redeemed our humanity from vanity and our time from illusion.

She'd once thought God would never intentionally hurt her. But looking back over her life, she'd had cause to rethink that. She was certain nothing touched her life that didn't first filter through the loving hands of her heavenly father. But she was also convinced that God sometimes wounded, in order to bind up. And that He shattered, so that His hands could heal. This was part of His inheritance she'd overlooked before, but never would again.

Yet even in such moments she didn't doubt that God existed. She just sometimes wondered if He remembered that she did.

Thoughts of the future and what it might hold threatened to crowd out her happiness, but she quickly reined in her thoughts and her fears. The good-byes here are only temporary. Someday there will be only together forevers.