Quotes About Hope

Ps 23:1...So, if the Lord is my shepherd, I shall not become empty. I shall not live in a constant state of disappointment where circumstances drain me dry... How do I let the Lord shepherd me so the gap between my expectations and reality closes? (p. 115-6)

Instead of letting the feelings from this situation label me, I'm going to focus on God and His promises for good things.

I can do everything through him who gives me strength. —[PHILIPPIANS 4:13]

If we place our hope and future in the hands of our unchanging, unflinching God who never leaves us or forsakes us, we'll find healing and freedom.

God loves us too much to answer our prayers in any other way than the right way. And He loves us too much to answer our prayers at any other time than the right time.

We must invite God into our pain to help us survive the desperate in-between.

But pulling away only makes things worse. God says, "You will seek me and find me when you seek me with all your heart" (Jeremiah 29:13). All my heart includes the parts that are broken. Bring it all to God.

C. S. Lewis said it best: "We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

The disappointment that is exhausting and frustrating you? It holds the potential for so much good. But we'll only see it as good if we trust the heart of the Giver.

If I want His promises, I have to trust His process. I have to trust that first comes the dust, and then comes the making of something even better with us. God isn't ever going to forsake you, but He will go to great lengths to remake you. What if disappointment is really the exact appointment your soul needs to radically encounter God?

This is the power available to us! The same power that raised Jesus from the dead. It may not feel like we have this power, but we do. And each time we proclaim, "I am made for more," I pray all the power-packed truths within that statement rush into our hearts and keep us enlightened.

No matter how vast our pit, prayer is big enough to fill us with the realization of His presence like nothing else.

Remember, this [life] is a love story. And we will never appreciate or even desire the hope of our True Love if lesser loves don't disappoint.

We see that all those harsh realities aren't the end, but rather a temporary middle space. Not the place where we are meant to wallow and dwell. Rather the place through which we will have to learn to wrestle well.

Oh, dear God, help me trust You beyond what my physical eyes can see. As the winds of all that's uncontrollable whip around me and thrash against me, I need something to ground me. Steady me. Hold me together when circumstances are falling apart. I want to trust You beyond what my eyes can see.

There aren't many sure things in this world. But God's love and goodness are something we can absolutely count on to be there with us . . . to follow us.

Anytime we feel not good enough we deny the powerful truth that we are a glorious work of God in progress. We are imperfect because we are unfinished.

Because of the LORD's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail. They are new every morning;

Even amid hardship, trials, and things that don't go the way we want them to, we can find something to be joyful about.

I'm no longer at the first cliff where the ground fell out from beneath me. But I'm also not all the way across to solid ground where everyone exhales, exhausted but relieved. No, I'm in the middle, which honestly might be the scariest of all places. Moving ahead and turning back are both equally terrifying.

My flesh and my heart may fail, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever.

Usually, the most disappointing realities come from the most realistic expectations. An unmet longing from a realistic expectation is such a searing pain within a human heart.

Philippians 4:7 holds a promise for us when we turn to God and allow His truth to fill us — our hearts are protected by peace: And the peace of God, which transcends all understanding, will guard your hearts and your minds in Christ Jesus.

Married or not, don't let what breaks your heart destroy your life. Hold fast to Jesus and remember: This breaking of you will be the making of you.