Quotes about Hope

In all my travels, I've never seen a country's population more determined to forgive, and to build and succeed than in Rwanda.

Grief is a good thing. It's the way we get through the transitions of life.

Spiritual emptiness is a universal disease.

Holocaust survivor Corrie Ten Boom said, "If you look at the world, you'll be distressed. If you look within, you'll be depressed. But if you look at Christ, you'll be at rest.

So we fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal." 2 CORINTHIANS 4:18

God's purpose is not limited by your past.

When life has meaning, you can bear almost anything; without it, nothing is bearable.

If there was no God, we would all be "accidents," the result of astronomical random chance in the universe. You could stop reading this book, because life would have no purpose or meaning or significance. There would be no right or wrong, and no hope beyond your brief years here on earth.

Hope is as essential to your life as air and water. You need hope to cope. Dr. Bernie Siegel found he could predict which of his cancer patients would go into remission by asking, "Do you want to live to be one hundred?" Those with a deep sense of life purpose answered yes and were the ones most likely to survive. Hope comes from having a purpose.

Without a clear purpose, you will keep changing directions, jobs, relationships, churches, or other externals — hoping each change will settle the confusion or fill the emptiness in your heart.

How would it make you feel if God showed you what you could have accomplished in life if you had just believed him a little bit more?

God specializes in turning weaknesses into strengths. He wants to take your greatest weakness and transform it.