Quotes About Hope

The church of my own childhood, as well as that of my present and my future, comprises deeply flawed human beings struggling toward an unattainable ideal.

when we appeal to God's grace and compassion the fearsome God soon disappears.

Those who suffer can respond to the call of the gospel with a certain abandonment and uncomplicated totality because they have so little to lose and are ready for anything.

There's something unique about having only God to lean on in times of trial.

C. S. Lewis said, "If you read history you will find out that the Christians who did most for the present world were precisely those who thought most of the next… Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.

some of the most inspiring stories of faith come from those often considered "losers" by the rest of the world.

One of the most important things we can do for a suffering person is to restore a sense of meaning or significance to the experience.

grace does not depend on what we have done for God but rather what God has done for us.

Only he who is helpless can truly pray.

God rejoices. Not because the problems of the world have been solved, not because all human pain and suffering have come to an end, nor because thousands of people have been converted and are now praising him for his goodness. No, God rejoices because one of his children who was lost has been found.

No matter how capable we are, we need God every day, living in us and acting through us. We need his courage and his hope, his love and his companionship. We need his salvation. We can't live without God.

At the heart of sin lies a lack of trust that God intends the best for us.

We're all bastards but God loves us anyway.

La vida es difícil».

En nuestro interior existe una especie de juicio instintivo, según el cual la vida debería ser justa, y de alguna manera, Dios debería estar «haciendo mejor su trabajo" de gobernar este mundo.

To the question Do I matter? Jesus is indeed the answer.

God weeps with us so that we may one day laugh with him. JÜRGEN MOLTMANN

Cada vez que nos aferramos tenazmente a Dios en un momento de dificultad, o sencillamente cada vez que oramos, es posible que esté sucediendo más, mucho más de lo que habríamos podido soñar jamás.

La pregunta final estuvo preocupando a los judíos por siglos después que Malaquías y los otros profetas desaparecieron de la escena. No veían milagros, ni intervenciones espectaculares, y no habían escuchado nuevos mensajes del Señor. ¿Se había olvidado Dios de ser misericordioso? ¿Se había tapado los oídos a sus gemidos? El Antiguo Testamento termina con una nota de desilusión, anhelos no cumplidos, y remota esperanza.

He transforms pain, using it to teach and strengthen us, if we allow it to turn us toward him.

conviction that God is good and that everything

Turn around and believe that the good news that we are loved is gooder than we ever dared hope, and that to believe in that good news, to live out of it and toward it, to be in love with that good news, is of all glad things in this world the gladdest thing of all.

about the key to something many Christ-followers often talk and pray about: genuine revival.

We live on a planet that has been invaded by evil forces, and God's followers are called to be part of the solution.