Quotes about Hope

Anchoring our hope to Christ means we live with a confident expectation that he will therefore fulfill his promises to us.

God is the God of do-overs, and that should give us great hope. We really can be absolved of our past.

As C. S. Lewis famously said, 'God whispers to us in our pleasures, speaks in our conscience, but shouts in our pains: [evil] is His megaphone to rouse a deaf world.

To Jesus she already is somebody. Like the loving father of the prodigal son, Jesus is frantically scanning the horizon, watching for Madonna to return to him. He's absolutely convinced that she's so valuable that she's worth dying for. 'Greater love has no one than this,' said Jesus in John 15:13, 'that one lay down his life for his friends.' That's what He did for her on the cross!

If I find in myself a desire which no experience in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that I was made for another world.

Biblical hope is the confident expectation that God is willing and able to fulfill the promises he has made to those who trust in him.

We can never sink so far that God's grace will not reach us. At the same time, grace does not leave us there. It raises us to new heights.

At the time of the crucifixion, the disciples couldn't see how anything good could result; similarly, as we face struggles and trials and suffering, we sometimes can't imagine good emerging. But we've seen how it did in the case of Jesus, and we can trust it will in our case too. For instance, the greatest Christians in history seem to say that their sufferings ended up bringing them the closest to God—so this is the best thing that could happen, not the worst.

it's at least possible that God is wise enough to foresee that we need some pain for reasons which we may not understand but which he foresees as being necessary to some eventual good. Therefore, he's not being evil by allowing that pain to exist.

moral character gets formed through hardship, through overcoming obstacles, through enduring despite difficulties. Courage, for example, would be impossible in a world without pain. The apostle Paul testified to this refining quality of suffering when he wrote that 'suffering produces perseverance; perseverance, character; and character, hope.'13

Hope is] the unswerving belief that better days are ahead, probably in this world and most certainly in the next.

If Jesus overcame the grave, he's still alive and available for me to personally encounter.