Quotes About Hope

The tribulation and poverty weren't the riches. They EXPOSED the riches: faith, hope, and love. Although this world burns away, writes the apostle Paul, these three will remain. Faith in Jesus, hope in Jesus, love that IS Jesus--this is treasure. The jewel exposed by the fire, the gold refined by the furnace, the treasure unearthed by the storm--treasure is found in people, and it is exposed by suffering.

The problem of utopia is that it can only be approached across a sea of blood, and you never arrive.

I just hope I die naturally before somebody breaks into my house and beats me to death for whatever I happen to have in my wallet, it's just a race between the one and the other for me.

People under thirty haven't yet stopped believing that something wonderful can suddenly happen.

Love is a book and a light to read it by.

Whenever God gives a miracle child to an old couple, it is a sign that He is beginning something new. An old couple having their first child means a new life. But a virgin who conceives must mark the beginning of a new creation.

She wished, sometimes, that she could trust God, and surrender all her concerns to Him. How much simpler that would make everything.

Los pactos son promesas, y el Dios verdadero se manifiesta, o se nombra, mediante su capacidad de cumplir sus promesas. Toda la cuestión del nombre de Dios, como opuesto a cualquier otra fuerza espiritual, es lo que prácticamente forja el guión de la Biblia. Dado que las promesas tienen que ver con el futuro, la Biblia es escatológica por obligación. De esta manera, la Biblia aborda el tiempo de un modo que nos permite vivir con esperanza, fe y amor en medio de la historia.

El evangelio no solo es un suceso; es una palabra fija, una verdad que permanece, una palabra fundamental para la vida, que contiene la promesa de las cosas venideras.

And God said, “Let there be light,” and there was light.

And God saw that the light was good, and He separated the light from the darkness.

And I will put enmity between you and the woman, and between your seed and her seed. He will crush your head, and you will strike his heel.”

And Adam again had relations with his wife, and she gave birth to a son and named him Seth, saying, “God has granted me another seed in place of Abel, since Cain killed him.”

And he named him Noah, saying, “May this one comfort us in the labor and toil of our hands caused by the ground that the LORD has cursed.”

Noah, however, found favor in the eyes of the LORD.

And behold, I will bring floodwaters upon the earth to destroy every creature under the heavens that has the breath of life. Everything on the earth will perish.

But I will establish My covenant with you, and you will enter the ark—you and your sons and your wife and your sonsí wives with you.

And Noah and his wife, with his sons and their wives, entered the ark to escape the waters of the flood.

And after seven days the floodwaters came upon the earth.

On that very day Noah entered the ark, along with his sons Shem, Ham, and Japheth, and his wife, and the three wives of his sons—

But God remembered Noah and all the animals and livestock that were with him in the ark. And God sent a wind over the earth, and the waters began to subside.

The waters receded steadily from the earth, and after 150 days the waters had gone down.

On the seventeenth day of the seventh month, the ark came to rest on the mountains of Ararat.

And the waters continued to recede until the tenth month, and on the first day of the tenth month the tops of the mountains became visible.