Quotes About Hope

The world starves for grace.

Anderson draws from the experience of Judas a key principle about prayer: "Prayer is not a means of removing the unknown and unpredictable elements in life, but rather a way of including the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of the grace of God in our lives.

How can Christians dispense grace in a society that seems to be veering away from God?

No, the prayer is essential. I live on the prayers. They alone can strengthen me to fight despair and fatigue.

if we do not believe that, and if our Christian hope, tempered by sophistication, does not allow us to offer that truth to a dying, convulsing world then we are indeed, as the apostle Paul said, of all men most miserable.

Somehow we need to reclaim the "goodnewsness" of the gospel

A God wise enough to rule the universe is wise enough to watch over his child Job, regardless of how things seem in the bleakest moments.

metáfora terrenal tomada del mundo de los negocios. El Espíritu nos recuerda que estas desilusiones son temporales; que son el preludio de una vida eterna con Dios, quien estimó necesario restaurar el nexo espiritual

Our faith rests not just on Jesus' example but on his resurrection.

Novelist Reynolds Price said there is one sentence all humankind craves to hear: "The Maker of all things loves and wants me.

the important issue facing Christians who suffer is not "Is God responsible?" but "How should I react now that this terrible thing has happened?

La Biblia no hace ninguna promesa color rosa acerca de vivir en una primavera eterna. Lo que hace es señalar hacia la fe que nos ayuda a prepararnos para las estaciones de sequía. Vendrán duros inviernos, seguidos por veranos ardientes. No obstante, si las raíces de la fe adquieren la suficiente profundidad para llegar hasta donde se halla el Agua Viva, podremos sobrevivir a los tiempos de sequía y florecer en los tiempos de abundancia.

people who have been broken by suffering and sickness ask for only one thing: a heart that loves and commits itself to them, a heart full of hope for them."2

Even when everything seems out of control, God remains firmly in control.

Gary Haugen, founder of the International Justice Mission, say something similar: "God has a plan to fight injustice, and that plan is us — ?his people. There is no Plan B.

Jesus Christ is the same yesterday and today and forever" (Hebrews 13:8).

Those who mourn sense the rupture of a world severed from God and thus edge closer to the Father who promises to make all things new.

The novelist Reynolds Price says there is one sentence above all that people crave from stories: The Maker of all things loves and wants me. Christians still believe in that truth.

As the noted physiologist Harold G. Wolf puts it, "Hope, faith and a purpose in life, is medicinal. This is not merely a statement of belief but a conclusion proved by meticulously controlled scientific experiment.

Afraid salvation is a vaccination that will not take

In order to be prepared to hope in what does not deceive, we must first lose hope in everything that deceives. —Georges Bernanos (in Reason for Being by Jacques Ellul)

What counts is the way a person reacts in the face of suffering.

But those of us who follow his conducting through early movements will, with renewed strength, someday burst into song.

It is not the same as optimism or wishful thinking, for these imply a denial of reality.