Quotes About Hope

Austin could do little more than stare at the woman. "It's a prairie dog," he reminded her. Cautiously, she brushed her fingers over its head. "It's just a baby. Please help her." Dee was looking at him with so much hope in her big brown eyes that he couldn't do what he knew needed to be done. He slipped his gun into his holster. Thank God, she was married to his brother and not to him. Dallas could break her heart. Austin wouldn't.

Somewhere to take shelter from the elements but not the storms of life.

So much had been lost.

There's a bit of magic in everything, and some loss to even things out.

I think life is far too short to concentrate on your past. I rather look into the future.

It takes a busload of faith to get by.

As with most things in life, it's that little hop at the end…

There's a bit of magic in everything And then some loss to even things out.

If you have no more happiness to give me, / Well then! you still have your pain.

Success in many of life's most important endeavors begins with a commitment to act like the person you hope to become.

He doesn't even know he has a choice. He really believes he has to be a loser forever.

God is coming to intersect us in our funeral processions

When you're in the midst of a storm, it's hard to remember that God is always good and glorious, and that God's plans will always prevail, even when yours don't.

simply by our proximity to Jesus, we can bring hope and life to people and places trapped in discouragement and despair.

Heaven will be full of the songs of worshipers who had once been broken people in a broken world, picked up and used for God's glory.

That's when we lean on God and constantly seek his face and heart and thoughts, because there's no way we can ever swim in the deepest part of the ocean unless we know the one who holds the seas in the palm of his hand.

There is no cancer, no sickness, no sin, no reversal of fortunes, no curse, no heartache - nothing - that's greater than Jesus. Jesus heals. Jesus restores. Jesus brings life.

Whatever giant we're battling might be big—but it's not bigger than Jesus.

Victory over our hurts and pain is not found by delving deeper into our wounds, but by clinging to the wounds of Jesus.

Our giants keep taunting us, so we need to hold God at his word: that he is already victorious. We need to believe that our pain can be overcome. We need to remind ourselves that those giants don't need to be giants any longer.

Jesus is a dream restorer. Your life might look different now than when it was born in your heart, but heaven still has a plan for you.

You should never count God out. What He has planned and dreamed for your life far exceeds the circumstances of your day. He is always at work, painting on a canvas bigger than we can see or imagine. Not only is this true today; it's been true of our entire story to this point.

I know a lot of us feel like that. We come to a place where we're walking through the fires and trials of life, and we don't know where to turn. What we need is a fresh start. We need our story to go in a new direction. What we need is a comeback of our own.

As long as our eyes are on the problem, and the solution lies within ourselves, the X's are going to pile up on the calendars of our fight, marking the days little to nothing has changed. But all that changes the day Jesus enters our Valley of Elah. The moment we stop staring at our giant and lock eyes with Jesus. The moment our hope shifts from us to him.