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Quotes About Hope

Hope is not a change method!
~ John C. Norcross
This world is behind enemy lines. Secret powers rule it. But they don't want to kill us with bombs or knives. They want even worse for us. They want to kill the better part of us, the part that hopes. Illnesses and accidents are weapons in their hands, weapons of despair, meant to turn our thoughts down and down to dark and dismal paths.
~ John C. Wright
John C. Wright
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To old times, May they never come again...' 'Old time past and better times to come!
~ John C. Wright
It would be a stronger world, a stronger, loving world, to die in.
~ John Cale
You must submit to supreme suffering in order to discover the completion of joy.
~ John Calvin
Prayer unaccompanied by perseverance leads to no result.
~ John Calvin
Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.
~ John Calvin
Thus it is that we may patiently pass through this life with its misery, hunger, cold, contempt, reproaches, and other troubles - content with this one thing: that our King [Jesus] will never leave us destitute, but will provide for our needs until, our warfare ended, we are called to triumph.
~ John Calvin
Let us, however, remember this truth: No one has made much progress in the school of Christ who doesn't look forward joyfully both to his death and the day of his final resurrection.
~ John Calvin
if we have Jesus Christ with us, we shall come upon nothing so accursed that he will not turn it into a blessing; nothing
~ John Calvin
He who lives by faith does not have life in himself; he flees to God because he does not possess it. The
~ John Calvin
Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart: wait, I say, on the Lord," (Psalm 27:14). He accuses himself of timidity, and repeating the same thing twice, confesses that he is ever and anon exposed to agitation. Still he is not only dissatisfied with himself for so feeling, but earnestly labors to correct it.
~ John Calvin
The word 'hope' I take for faith; and indeed, hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith.
~ John Calvin
There is no king saved by the multitude of an host; a   mighty man is not delivered by much strength. Behold, the eye of the   Lord is upon them that fear him, upon them that hope in his mercy."   (Psalm 33:16-18)
~ John Calvin
And it was our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, the true and only eternal Son of God, who had to be sent and given to mankind by the Father, to restore a world otherwise wasted, destroyed, and desolate.
~ John Calvin
For while the unbelievers flourish, they do not know what is waiting for them on the next day; therefore, they must always live in turmoil because of perplexity and fear; neither
~ John Calvin
So it will be that no matter what kind of cross is placed upon us, we will steadily maintain endurance even through the narrowest straits of the soul.
~ John Calvin
The only reason for security is that our salvation is in God's hand. Our
~ John Calvin
But this we may positively state, that nobody has made any progress in the school of Christ unless he cheerfully looks forward to the day of his death and to the day of the final resurrection.
~ John Calvin
Thus, to have a proper understanding of the gospel, we must recognise that we need to lean entirely upon the Lord Jesus Christ and his mercy alone as our only hope of salvation. We
~ John Calvin
It   is a horrible thing to pour out seed besides the intercourse of man and   woman. Deliberately avoiding the intercourse, so that the seed drops on   the ground, is double horrible. For this means that one quenches the   hope of his family, and kills the son, which could be expected, before   he is born.
~ John Calvin
For the more we are afflicted by adversities, the more surely our fellowship with Christ is confirmed!
~ John Calvin
Without Christ, on the   other hand, the whole world is a shapeless chaos and frightful   confusion. We
~ John Calvin