Quotes about Hope
We need Jesus Christ, our refuge, our fortress, the stronghold of my life. It takes desolation to teach us our need of Him.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Like the sparrow, I've got a song to sing. Unlike the sparrow, I must sing mine by faith.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Strange—or is it?—that childish hopes should be answered in the will of God for this now?
— Elisabeth Elliot
When our plans are interrupted, His are not. God's plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always - including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable - toward the goal of true maturity.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Nothing that comes to me is void of divine purpose. In seeking to see the whole with God's eyes, we can find the peace which human events so often destroy.
— Elisabeth Elliot
As you grow stronger, it may return from time to time, but that is how grief works.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in dark tunnels.
— Elisabeth Elliot
With God's help, your trial today is leading to your wholeness tomorrow.
— Elizabeth George
With the help of the Lord, you can handle life's challenges and heartaches, even the valley of the shadow of death. What comfort your fainting heart has, knowing that in those stumbling times of discouragement and despair, of depletion and seeming defeat, the Shepherd will find you...restore and fix you...and follow you...until you are well on your way.
— Elizabeth George
Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.
— Elizabeth George
Worry denies the power of God and produces no good results. Worry adds no value to your life. Eliminate it with God's help.
— Elizabeth George
We find hope in a hostile place when we focus on the goodness of God as revealed in His promises. In other words, hope and security come when we - like the Israelites - acknowledge God's love for us.
— Elizabeth George