Quotes About Hope

When we shift from personal purity to personal happiness, we lose biblical hope because we are not focusing on God's agenda, we are focusing on our own. God's agenda is guaranteed on our agenda is not.

Yet those who wait for the LORD will gain new strength; they will mount up with wings like eagles, they will run and not get tired.

But extraordinary life is possible—find it. There's a better, higher, eternal life that can begin during this earthly life. It is an awesome life found in Christ! And we can live it now!

God brings us low, even to the point of death, in order to bring us up again.

For those who love God all things work together for good.

Faith is active confidence in God.

God shows up powerfully when our worship is sincere and fervent in spite of whatever difficult circumstance we might be experiencing.

Tell them," God said through Isaiah, "hard times are coming, but don't give up—now or ever. Don't let them underestimate My power to reorder the universe. Tell them to keep trusting Me and living the way I told them to in spite of what's coming.

Does God love us even when our hearts are far from Him? The answer: Yes, He does!

Proverbs 18:10, "The name of the LORD is a strong tower.

Times of refreshing may come from the presence of the Lord (Acts 3:20).

What you hope for determines what you live for. What you hope for determines WHO you live for. Hope misplaced can devastate you.

The happy Union of these States is a wonder their Constitution a miracle their example the hope of Liberty throughout the world.

War contains so much folly, as well as wickedness, that much is to be hoped from the progress of reason.

Optimists are the least prepared for the loss of hope.

Sometimes you just have to be brave. You have to be strong. Sometimes you just can't give in to weak thoughts. You have to beat down those devils that get inside your head and try to make you panic. You struggle along, putting one foot a little bit ahead of the other, hoping that when you go backwards it won't be too far backwards, so that when you start going forwards again you won't have too much to catch up

The present moment holds infinite riches beyond your wildest dreams but you will only enjoy them to the extent of your faith and love. The more a soul loves, the more it longs, the more it hopes, the more it finds. —Jean-Pierre de Caussade, S.J. (1675–1751), The Sacrament of the Present Moment

To some of us the humiliation of failure seems to open a wide gulf between God and us. We imagine that God turns away from us in disgust. What I discovered was that failure could be a bridge across the chasm that pride had created.

Joy] does not ignore pain in the world, in another's life or in one's own life. Rather, it goes deeper, seeing confidence in God—and for Christians, in Jesus Christ—as the reason for joy and a constant source of joy.

Jesus is the most famous victim of capital punishment.

Finding joy in times of pain begins with understanding that true joy is rooted in God. Thus, keeping one's relationship with God at the center of one's life is essential to discovering areas of joy, comfort and solace.

Our hearts cry out,

Real religion," said Macmurray, has a different maxim: "Fear not; the things you are afraid of are quite likely to happen to you, but they are nothing to be afraid of.

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