Quotes about Hope

I have no pleasure in the death of anyone, declares the Lord GOD" (Ezekiel 18:32).

It is a great thing to die; and, when flesh and heart fail, to have God for the strength of our heart, and our portion forever. I know whom I have believed, and he is able to keep that which I have committed against that great day. Henceforth there is laid up for me a crown of righteousness, which the Lord, the righteous Judge, shall give me that day. 28

Worry is a mild form of atheism.

Romans 8:32 may be the most important verse in the Bible, because it establishes the unshakable connection between the greatest event in the universe and the greatest future imaginable: "He who did not spare his own Son but gave him up for us all, how will he not also with him graciously give us all things?

Christ is the glory we were made to see. His light alone will fill us and give the light of life and meaning to every part of our lives. And

Now there was only one hope, the sovereign grace of God. God would have to transform my heart to do what a heart cannot make itself do, namely, want what it ought to want. Only God can make the depraved heart desire God.

what we need from the Bible is not the fulfillment of our dream, but the swallowing up of our failed dream in the all-satisfying glory of Christ.

Everything we need to be satisfied in God, the cross has made certain. It cannot fail.

You have God- and all that he is for you in Jesus.

Suffering for Jesus is temporary. Pleasure in Jesus is eternal.

For Jesus, the demand for joy is a way to live with suffering and to outlast suffering.

What is needed is a miracle. I mean that literally. A supernatural in-breaking of God through the gospel of Christ. It is not even possible to describe the hope-filled relational dynamics that may happen when the gospel explodes in two hearts that bring such radically different experiences of sin and suffering to the relationship.