Quotes About Hope

Maybe he thinks he can rescue me? No one is that stupid.

We must pass through the prism of our own destruction to see a new and better light.

You never know what the future holds or where my life will take me.

True hope is not fully realized when we keep it for ourselves, but only when we imitate Jesus Christ and give it away. That's when hope becomes mature.

Indeed, our pain has a purpose. All of it. If we do not believe this, it only means we have not yet turned the corner into trusting in Him more than our pain. This is what Jesus can do with pain, any pain, given to Him. When we surrender our suffering to Him, He makes it into something beautiful, powerful, life changing. But there is something He cannot heal—the pain we refuse to give to Him. And this is pain that destroys.

Friend, the call on your life is simple. It amounts to three things—only three. Love God, love each other and share the hope of His redeeming love (see Mark 12:30-31; 16:15).

We are alive today to love God, to advance the saving hope of Jesus and to fight for those in our midst who are losing their battle for hope.

Anxiety can only happen when our hope is genuinely in the wrong thing, not in Jesus.

I've looked at you, the person that you are. The kind of person I want to be. You've been my guiding light back to myself, Willow. Hell, probably finding myself for the first time. My lighthouse, a light in the dark.

Christ's return is not the inauguration of a halfway step on the road to consummation called a millennium. Christ's return is the consummation.

spring time is for lovers because...it's so fresh and new!

the only difference between a successful person and a person who gets lost is that one of them stopped dreaming!

We dream, we wake on a cold hillside, we pursue the dream again. In the beginning was the dream, and the work of disenchantment never ends.

the God I love and serve hears all prayers. He answers all prayers. Sometimes it is yes. Sometimes it is wait awhile. Sometimes it is no. He knows best.

The problem with our human eyes is that we can only see the right now. But God? He sees around the corner, over the hill, and clean to the horizon. He knows what's comin', an' He knows what we need to be prepared for what's comin'. So sometimes those things we face that we don't understand—the things we think of as bad—are really for our good down the line.

She has lost much, son. We must be patient while we wait for her to smile, ja?

This town needs people like Neva Shilling, people with a giving spirit and a desire to serve. Especially in these times of hardship, Mrs. Shilling is a beacon of hope that things can be better if we're willing to give of ourselves.

Neva closed her eyes and prayed aloud, asking God to kiss Belle's dreams with all things pleasant and awaken her in the morning with the reminder of His unwavering presence. Then she gave her daughter a hug and a kiss and tiptoed from the room.

Every season has its heartaches, but you done learned the most 'portant lesson, an' that's that God gits you through. No matter what comes along—when you leans on Him, He gits you through.

Well, this I can guarantee you: God doesn't always do things the way we think they oughtta be done." Tressa's head shot up, her gaze colliding with Aunt Hattie's. A soft smile warmed the older woman's face. "He always does 'em better. An' when we follow His lead, we discover what's best for us. God doesn't want you to hope only for second best—He wants you to find His very best.

angel took my flower away, but I will not repine, since Jesus at His bosom wears the flower that once was mine.

Mack to Abigail (pg. 257) "Psalm 126:5 says, 'They that sow in tears shall reap in joy.' Ma said when she got overwhelmed and needed to have a cry, she could be sure joy would follow the tears. That the tears watered seeds of joy. I've had some of those tears myself.

learn to lean on God. If 'n you don't, you's gonna come across a day when yo' strength ain't enough. An' you'll just go all to pieces. But if you got God's strength, chil', then you'll always have the strength you need, no matter how hard thangs git.

Tommy lifted his hands to me in complete trust—me, who he has never seen—that it's time for me to lean trustingly into the hands of the One who might be unseen but is always watching me." Tears