Quotes About Hope

At times there is a crushing before a crowning.

Often your greatest battles come before your greatest blessings.

Do not be afraid of sudden terror, nor of trouble from the wicked when it comes; for the Lord will be your confidence (Proverbs 3:25, 26).

God will be faithful to deliver you, if you will be faithful to believe Him. It might not come in the manner or time you are expecting, but faith and patience birth the blessings:

grace for the race; grace for the place; and grace for the case.

Grace for the case is grace for your condition.

And another adventure draws to a close with the classic happy ending. Happy except for the fact that Berk is dead, Aylee is gone, and Gwynn is a soulless vegetable. At least the bad guy got away! Ok, so the ending wasn't so happy, but hey, you can be happy to know nothing else can go wrong!

You want to know what OASIS is? You want to know the TRUTH? It's just on the other side of this door. That I am really hoping is unlocked.

Great things can rise from fetid pits of wanton death and sorrow.

Life sometimes hurts like hell but I've discovered that deleting God from the equation doesn't actually help. It merely removes all meaning and morality from the mess, and all real hope from the future

Amid sparkling creativity, spectacular innovation and unprecedented wealth, growing up in the West means for many a sense of alienation and a craving for intimacy, authenticity and hope.

So I'm waiting for God, and God is waiting for me to see if I am really waiting for him, and not just wanting things from him.

To be a Christian is to live positively and not destructively, to make ugly things beautiful, and to make chaos meaningful.

Augustine once said that God puts salt on our lips that we may thirst for him. Sometimes it's the salt of our tears.

God is not a mindless dispenser of demolition techniques; he is looking for relationship with those who dare to trust him against all other odds.

God uses young people again and again to help restore and shape the destiny of nations...Young people stand at the heart of the salvation story.

see the world as a skeptic, not a cynic, while allowing for the wan possibility of human decency.

The cause of death was always life. Across many years now, he had comforted people he knew would soon die. He hoped his consoling whispers would do them no harm. He hoped too that he could reduce their immediate pain. But he could not carry them around in his head like luggage. He had to examine with all the intensity he could muster, do what he could, avoid harm, and then forget them.

How strange it seems, with so much gone Of life and love, to still live on.

Love never fails. Character never quits. And with patience and persistence, dreams do come true

I've never looked forward to a birthday like I'm looking forward to my new daughter's birthday, because two days after that is when I can apply for reinstatement.

I fought for peace in the fifties.

Keep your sense of humor. There is a 50-50 chance the world can be saved. You- yes you- might be the grain of sand that tips the scales the right way.

Do you realize why is it I'm so driven to operate within the Establishment? It's vengeance. 'Hope I die before I get old' is something I still have to live with, but not for the reason many people think. I have to be very, very vigilant not to become one of those people I despised.