Quotes About Hope

Their boundless faith in their philosophy, a faith strong enough to move mountains and very soothing to depressed feelings, that no human beings and no animals can die before their appointed time, and that the man-eater's time had not yet come

God is more powerful than anybody's past, no matter how wretched. He can make us forget - not by erasing the memory but by taking the sting and paralyzing effect out of it

No matter what I preach or what we claim to believe in our heads, the future will depend upon our times of prayer.

I despaired at the thought that my life might slip by without seeing God show himself mightily on our behalf.

Faith never denies reality but leaves room for God to grant a new reality.

All changes — ?spiritual revivals, a turnaround in a church, a barren life now bearing fruit — ?begin when there is a discontentment that says, "I refuse to accept this.

The hardest part of faith is often simply to wait. And the trouble is, if we don't, then we start to fix the problem ourselves - and that makes it worse. We complicate the situation to the point where it takes God much longer to fix it than if we had quietly waited for his working in the first place.

Ricardo's story is evidence of what God will do in response to fervent prayer. No one is beyond his grace. No situation, anywhere on earth, is too hard for God.

The next time you are faced with an insurmountable problem, I'd advise you to look into the heavens on a clear night.

If you have been waiting for an answer to prayer for a long time, remember that long waits often occur right before the biggest mountains come down.

Many times in life, God waits while a situation goes from bad to worse. He appears to let it slip over the edge, so that you and I say, "There's no way now for this ever to work out." But that is the point when the omnipotent God intervenes in our hopelessness and says, "Oh, really? Watch this...!

So many times when we get into emergencies and the situation seems totally hopeless - it's actually a setup. God wants to do something great. He wants to demonstrate his power, so that his name will be praised in a new and greater way. The next generation will hear all about it. After all, their spiritual nurture is far more important than material things.

Unbelief loves to paint the bleakest picture it can. It loves to get us mumbling to ourselves, I'm not going to make it. I just know this is going to turn out terrible. The future is bound to crash on me. Let me tell you that God, who began a good work in you, is not about to stop now. After sending his Son to die for your sins, after saving you at such incredible cost, why would he let you fail now?

Naive hope is based on wishful thinking, but a hope formed from suffering, perseverance, and character and rooted in faith in God is something else entirely. It is realistic, motivating, and awesome. It helps us see beyond the misery of the immediate to the possible. It is founded on the certainty of the Lord's love and power.

The hope and change the Democrats had in mind was nothing more than a retread of the failed and discredited socialist policies that have been the enemy of freedom for centuries all over the world. I fear America is teetering towards tyranny.

If we become too scared to confront the chief problems of our time, there is no hope of ever solving them.

Today is a celebration of hope for the Iraqi people. The Iraqi people can now take control of their government and their future by creating a society that protects the rights endowed to us by our creator - life, liberty and freedom.

Aucune drogue n'est plus puissante que le réel, m'avait dit un jour John Seasons, car le réel, malgré notre obstination arrogante, terrifiée et pleine d'espoir, n'a pas besoin de nos perceptions, tout juste de notre présence impuissante.

Grieve not, then, if your sons seem to desert you, but rejoice, rather, seeing the will of God done gladly.

Don't let less-than-perfect circumstances keep you from trusting God.

When you don't understand what is happening, you need to wait, trust God, and rest in His care. He is always faithful to His own.

I don't know why he isn't dead, maybe he's lucky. Certainly his physical self is dead. Before the streets, drugs, IV use, and hustling -medically - his body is not right. [...] So there is some will to live in him, to pass on his knowledge and good nature. It's a mystery. Dave is an inspiration to people. He is society's throw-away.

Last, I would like to thank the dogs, not just the Vick pack, but all of them, simply for being dogs, which is to say, tolerant and perseverant; willing to connect with a world that does not always return their affection; and for proving, time and again, that life, while messy, difficult, and imperfect, has the capacity to exceed our expectations and feed our undying hope.

But no one names a thing that doesn't have hope. No one names a thing that doesn't have a future. No one names a lost dog.