Quotes about Hope

All suffering, all pain, all emptiness, all disappointment is seed: sow it in God and he will, finally, bring a crop of joy from it.

This joy is not dependent on our good luck in escaping hardship. It is not dependent on our good health and avoidance of pain. Christian joy is actual in the midst of pain, suffering, loneliness and misfortune.

It announces the existence of a people who assemble to worship God and disperse to live to God's glory, whose lives are bordered on one side by a memory of God's acts and the other by hope in God's promises, and who along with whatever else is happening are able to say, at the center, "We are one happy people."

Don't fret or worry. Instead of worrying, pray. Let petitions and praises shape your worries into prayers, letting God know your concerns. Before you know it, a sense of God's wholeness, everything coming together for good, will come and settle you down. It's wonderful what happens when Christ displaces worry at the center of your life.

It pays to take life seriously; things work out when you trust in GOD.

A Christian is a person who decides to face and live through suffering.

But Jesus' priesthood is permanent. He's there from now to eternity to save everyone who comes to God through him, always on the job to speak up for them.

To persevere, trusting in what hopes he has, is courage in a man.

The Columbia is lost, but the dreams that inspired its crew remain with us.

The gospel is entirely a message about what someone else has done not only for me but also for the renewal of the whole creation.

When I was 15, I had this illness and was basically housebound for two years.

God is not disillusioned with us. He never had any illusions to begin with.