Quotes about Hope

Will I find spiritual communion with God sweet enough, and hope in his promises deep enough, not just to cope, but to flourish and rejoice in him?

Let the freedom to fail give you the hope to fight.

We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.

At one level, the message of the book of Ruth is that the life of the godly is not a straight line to glory, but they do get there.

If death is no longer a fear, we're really free. Free to take any risk under the sun for Christ and for love.

DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

But we also need stories. Great stories.

When everything in life is stripped away except God, and we trust him more because of it, this is gain, and he is glorified.

We can draw no deadlines for God. He hastens or He delays as he sees fit. And his timing is all-loving toward his children. On, that we might learn to be patient in the hour of darkness. I don't mean that we make peace with darkness. We fight for joy. But we fight as those who are saved by grace and held by Christ. We say...that our night will soon- in God's good timing- turn to day.

God is willing and able to turn his judgements into joys . . . Don't ever think that the sin of your past means there is no hope for your future.

O, the lessons here for us! Name your discouraging setback—personal, political, scholarly, ecclesiastical, cultural, global. Dare any Christian say that God is not in this for the good of his people and the glory of his name? Not if our God is the God of Ezra! Do you think these setbacks are not without some great purpose of righteousness bigger and more stunning than any of us can imagine?

Did you wake up feeling fragile? Read the bible till you find a promise strong enough to carry you through the day.