Quotes About Hope

as thou hast given me a repentance, not to be repented of, so give me, O Lord, a fear, of which I may not be afraid.

prayer incorporates the unknown and unpredictable in the outworking of God's grace.

Having fallen from the absolute Ideal, we have nowhere to land but in the safety net of absolute grace.

Por todo esto y mucho más deberíamos estar viviendo un amanecer de gran promesa. Pero ahora que somos más libres para disfrutar la vida, estamos profundamente decepcionados de que la libertad y la comodidad, que buscamos con tan profundo deseo, no le da significado ni propósito a nuestra vida.

Viktor Frankl, who spent time in one of Hitler's camps, said, "Despair is suffering without meaning.

Faith like Job's cannot be shaken because it is the result of having been shaken." C.

As Solzhenitsyn elegantly expressed it in his classic One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, faith in God may not get you out of the camp, but it is enough to see you through each day.

Aun cuando todo parezca fuera de control, Dios sigue dominando con toda firmeza

Confieso que, a pesar de las largas horas de estudio de los profetas, no tengo un entendimiento más claro de lo que sucederá el año próximo ni en el año 2025. Pero tengo una idea mucho más clara de lo que Dios desea lograr en mi vida ahora mismo. Y estoy ganando, gradualmente, confianza para creer en el presente lo que solo será totalmente entendible cuando se vea desde el futuro.

by embracing grief and standing beside the hurting person, we can indeed aid another's search for meaning.

Where is God when it hurts? I have often asked. The answer is another question, Where is the church when it hurts?

True hope is honest.

Realistic hope permits a dying person to confront reality, but at the same time gives strength to go on living.

God does some of God's best work with people who are truly, seriously lost.

Not until history has run its course will we understand how "all things work together for good." Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.

the parents of a severely disabled child have no end in sight.

Wounded 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.

That, I believe, is also what faith sometimes requires: trusting God when there is no apparent evidence of him—as Job did. Trusting in his ultimate goodness, a goodness that exists outside of time, a goodness that time has not yet caught up with.

We need a renewed awareness of death, yes. But we need far more. We need a faith, in the midst of our groaning, that death is not the last word, but the next to last. What is mortal will be swallowed up by life.

For a society that seems adrift, without moorings, I know of no better place to drop an anchor of faith.

a hope for healing should be presented realistically. It is just that — a "hope," not a guarantee. If it comes, a joyous miracle has happened. If it doesn't come, God has not let you down.

their great hope was to restore Western culture to its religious roots, to unleash the powers of the imagination, to reenchant the world through Christian faith and pagan beauty. How

When you pray, you know that you want something, that's always the first step. to let yourself know that you want something, that you yearn for it. sometimes that's the hardest thing to do. Because you have to have courage to know what you desire. You have to have courage to acknowledge that you are unhappy without it.

I put the charm bracelet away in the purse and return it to my jewel case. I don't need a spell to foresee the future; I am going to make it happen.