Quotes About Hope

Tomorrow is your future's yesterday.

Evil does not question itself. Only Hope questions itself.

The winged beasts and angels know, that mortals cannot fly. But how I flew to see the sun; a broken bird am I.

Peace is not found in the sea. It is found when I dream of eternity.

For a brief moment two young brothers appear immobile on this rubble. Their faces are serene and still. It is my blood. My brother untouched and unchanged, alive now in some distant place, full of hope and grace. All sweet with no bitter; all bright and no pale. The rough is made smooth; the dark clouds, a dream.

This unholy masquerade when reality does fade, the imprint of the God on our mortal-stained facade. Saints and spirits strip the earth of the straining hope of birth. "Kill the hope with grasping grave," cries the earthly mortal slave.

Daniel? Daniel...of what use are the bones of saints? Of what great interest to me are their dusted stories of day?" I stand at a dreadful distance. He speaks, "Silent stones of granite hue; enveloped now in sacred dew. Speak somber words of restless hope... of resurrection." I hear the hushings of the wind in a rhythmic silence, and turn to see a friar's lantern on a distant ridge.

If God has done what you think he should do, trust him. If God doesn't do what you think he should do, trust him. If you pray and believe God for a miracle and he does it, trust him. If your worst nightmare comes true, believe he is sovereign. Believe he is good.

If you're not dead, you're not done.

My pastor used to say you're either coming out of a tough season, in the middle of a tough season, or heading into a tough season.

we're not changed by the promises we make to God; we're changed by believing the promises God makes to us.

If God does what you think he should do, trust him. If God doesn't do what you think he should do, trust him. If you pray and believe God for a miracle and he does it, trust him. If your worst nightmare comes true, believe he is sovereign. Believe he is good.

God is not calling us to go to church; he is calling us to be his church, the hope of the world.

If you've messed up big - like me, like Isaiah - congratulations! You're at the top of God's talent-scouting list.

A. W. Tozer, who said, "It is doubtful whether God can bless a man greatly until he has hurt him deeply.

When you cry out to God for forgiveness, he doesn't remember your sins. They are gone. Forgiven. Washed away. And forgotten. In the same way that the coal removed Isaiah's guilt and sin, the blood of Jesus takes away ours.

God has not given us a spirit of fear, but of power and of love and of a sound mind. —2 TIMOTHY 1:7 NKJV

Dios responderá algunas oraciones de la manera en que lo esperas. No obstante, en otras ocasiones no será así. Ese es el misterio de la oración. No podemos reducir la oración a una fórmula.

His famous, soul-stirring "I have a dream" speech will still give you chills and break your heart today. Decades later, long after his life on earth tragically ended, the legacy of his burden lives on, improving lives for generations to come. All because one man allowed his burden to birth a dream.

You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He wants to take you to a new place, to transform you into a new person.

Again, so many people think that they wouldn't be going through their struggles if God were really with them. But that's simply not the case. Having Jesus in the stern beside you doesn't mean the storm won't rock your boat. It just means the storm won't sink you.

While it's easy to believe the worst, God wants you to believe the best. He never promises a trouble-free life of leisure, but he does promise never to leave you and always to love you.

Instead of drifting away from God, you'll be firmly anchored, able to swim against the tide, offering living water to all you meet.

What do you do when you're in the valley? You remember what God has done. When he comforted you. When he guided you. When he answered your prayer exactly the way you wanted him to. And when he didn't do what you wanted, but sometime later you realized it was exactly what you needed. And you dare to believe that what he's done before, he will do again.