Quotes About Hope

The faith of desperation—trusting faith—digs in, holds on, clings tight, and says, "I don't care what's going to happen, I am holding on to God!

Life as usual must go. It will be replaced by something far better.

Anyone who can find a better way than Jesus, he would be the first to tell you to take it.

Jesus, by contrast, brings us into a world without fear. In his world, astonishingly, there is nothing evil we must do in order to thrive.

I routinely watched Dallas, like no one I had encountered before or since, wipe clean people's vision of who God was, what his Son did and why, and what the Holy Spirit wishes to do in and through his church and then replace it with an all-consuming, hope-filled, grace-empowered, joy-seeking, love-giving gospel of God's boundless goodness and power. All the while he never manipulated emotions, overcame people's will, or used fear as a motivator.

believe our only hope for leaders to increasingly work in the way of Jesus, for the glory of Jesus, in the power of Jesus and under the direction of Jesus will be as they have passed through stages that help them learn the soul work of surrender, abandonment, contentment and participation. There simply are no shortcuts.

The blessedness was not in their condition of being poor, mournful, or disrespected. They were blessed because they could enter the kingdom, and to be in the kingdom means to be blessed no matter what else happens. They can rest in that. Their future in God is secured, and their present condition redeemed. Forever. No matter what.

we are not only asking to be forgiven, we are asking for guidance and wisdom and strength to respond differently tomorrow.

The world is a perfectly good and safe place to be. —DALLAS WILLARD

change comes through brutal honesty and vulnerability before God. Only face to face with our deepest ruling passions is there hope of redeeming the fabric of our inner world.

Godly despair cries out for perspective but allows the hollowness of loss to move the heart to seek God.

from chapter 3, What Makes A Good Story?) Our willingness to hold dear the moments of past shalom prepares us to imagine a new and better day, and, even more to move toward that day with passion and purpose.

Weariness is really about this core struggle to hope despite the circumstances and our limitations, and not so much about stress and being tired.

When pain lumbers through the front door, squats down in the middle of your life, and makes itself at home day after day, year after year, it can make you choke. It can make you angry at God.

What might it look like if we lived as if we will not be endlessly divided from those who have brought us harm and whom we have failed as well?

The next February I had a daughter born. She lived only 12 days. There were some things very strange connected with the birth of this child, which I do not think best to write, but I shall never forget, which I never shall know the meaning of until the first resurrection, when I shall clasp it again in my arms.

When swimming into a dark tunnel,there arrives a point of no return when you no longer have enough breath to double back.your choice is to swim forward into the unknown....and pray for an exit

All around the world, we are gazing skyward waiting for God… Never realizing that God is waiting for us.

God's will is your deepest desires.

The roads to salvation are many. Forgiveness is not the only path.

It is always darkest before the dawn.

Anything is possible when people believe in a cause.

Nothing is impossible. Impossible just takes a bit longer.

Soon you will lose everything you hold most dear.