Quotes About Hope

I know you feel decimated, but don't let your circumstances tell you who God is. Let who God is tell you how to deal with your circumstances.

So you made some bad choices. Some of God's best players were His imperfect, broken prodigals. In fact, iffy players are God's best picks. He specializes in short-tempered, reckless, flawed people to accomplish his plans.

It's never a bad thing to have only God to turn to.

You will never be enough, Ford. When you are weak, because of Him, you are strong.

When all else is done, God is enough, everything, and always.

God is in the storm. That though the winds blow and my life feels torn apart, if I can just trust Him, I'll discover Him at the center.

God doesn't promise to keep the storm away, but He says He'll be with me through it. My faith won't protect me from the loss, but it will carry me and keep me from despair.~page 195

Life doesn't have to be perfect to be happy. Sometimes you have to find the happy places between the pain.

I'm saying that storms happen - cancer happens. Accidents happen. We can either run from them, hide from them, or....go through them. God is with us in all of those situations. But yeah, some of his best people are pressed out, shaken, fermented...aged through circumstances or time.

God is in the storm. Though the winds blow, and my life feels torn apart, if I can just trust Him, I'll discover Him at the center.

Yep. Be. Believe. Hold on. Stand. Our best hope in the middle of confusion and chaos is not to try and solve our problems ourselves but to simply remember whose we are and who we hope in. You stay rooted in the middle of a storm—darkness, confusion, chaos—by putting your focus on the One who is stronger than the storm.

And I can also believe that God hasn't abandoned me just because my life blew up. Feelings aren't facts. The truth is that God loves me. And is up to something good in my life. Something you pointed out to me just a few weeks ago, bro.

God hasn't forgotten you. There's a plan. you just don't know it yet. But when you're ready to get back into the game, He'll tell you.

You're just mad because God didn't answer your prayer the way you wanted him to.

But suffering can either destroy you or it can save you. Because without suffering, we don't need more; we have enough. But when we suffer, we can't help but reach out. It forces us into God's arms, and that's where we find not only what we need, but more than we can imagine. We find Him.

I know that God loves you. And that He's not interested in obeying your plans. He's interested in giving you the best. And all you need to do is believe that. When you know God loves you, then faith is simply the expectation that God will show up, that love in hand.

You have to believe that no matter what happens, you're going to be okay. That God's grace is enough.

God will show up even when we've made a mess of things. Even when it's out fault - He will show up because that's Who He is.

Faith is what holds us together. It's our foundation when the world is shattering around us. It's the belief in a bigger picture. A bigger reason. It's the hope that we have when we realize we are not enough.

We are never more loved than by our God. Our refuge and strength.

God's not going to answer all my questions...and maybe He doesn't need to. Maybe it's enough that He saved us...and He's still saving us.

Seriously, don't be afraid to allow grace to transform your life.

Susan May Warren

But as long as evil persists in the world— and it will until Jesus returns— there will be wars.