Quotes about Hope

Christ died to save this lost world; he did not come to destroy, maim or pour out wrath.

I hope to build a reputation as a science-fiction writer. That's the pitch. We'll see.

I am not writing to try and convert people to fundamental Christianity. I am just trying to share my experience, strength and hope, that someone who is as messed up and neurotic and scarred and scared can be fully accepted by our dear Lord, no questions asked.

Dearest Lord Jesus, keep me from sin, protect me from evil, and bring peace within.

The third thing that I learned was that you, my Lord, never regarded me as I actually was, lame and weak and crooked and cowardly. You saw me as I would be when you had done what you promised and had brought me to the High Places, when it could be truly said, 'There is none that walks with such a queenly ease, nor with such grace, as she.'

The Shepherd laughed too. "I love doing preposterous things," he replied. "Why, I don't know anything more exhilarating and delightful than turning weakness into strength, and fear into faith, and that which has been marred into perfection. If there is one thing more than mother which I should enjoy doing at this moment it is turning a jellyfish into a mountain goat.

It is a law of the spiritual life that every act of trust makes the next act less difficult. Trusting becomes like breathing, the natural unconciousness of the redeemed soul.

Often the trials we mourn are really gateways into the good things we long for.

I work in a very tough area of Britain. There is not much hope sociologically where I live and work, they're all sorts of conditions of poverty and deprivation and so on, I really do believe that the message of the kingdom of God is for places like this.

In our case, my children and I couldn't have made it through the tough times without the grace of God and the wonderful support we received from family and friends.

I'm someone who has always had a positive outlook towards life.

You know, there is always times where you feel discouraged and things coming against you, but I don't know if I ever wanted to throw in the towel.