Quotes About Hope

And the angel of the LORD appeared to Gideon and said, “The LORD is with you, O mighty man of valor.”

But the LORD said to him, “Peace be with you. Do not be afraid, for you will not die.”

Sidonians, Amalekites, and Maonites oppressed you and you cried out to Me, did I not save you from their hands?

Now there was a man from Zorah named Manoah, from the clan of the Danites, whose wife was barren and had no children.

The angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, “It is true that you are barren and have no children; but you will conceive and give birth to a son.

Then Manoah prayed to the LORD, “Please, O Lord, let the man of God You sent us come to us again to teach us how to raise the boy who is to be born.”

But his wife replied, “If the LORD had intended to kill us, He would not have accepted the burnt offering and the grain offering from our hands, nor would He have shown us all these things or spoken to us this way.”

So God opened up the hollow place in Lehi, and water came out of it. When Samson drank, his strength returned, and he was revived. That is why he named it En-hakkore, and it remains in Lehi to this day.

However, the hair of his head began to grow back after it had been shaved.

But 600 men turned and fled into the wilderness to the rock of Rimmon, where they stayed four months.

So the people came to Bethel and sat there before God until evening, lifting up their voices and weeping bitterly.

“Why, O LORD God of Israel,” they cried out, “has this happened in Israel? Today in Israel one tribe is missing!”

Then Naomiís husband Elimelech died, and she was left with her two sons,

both Mahlon and Chilion also died, and Naomi was left without her two sons and without her husband.

Accompanied by her two daughters-in-law, she left the place where she had been living and set out on the road leading back to the land of Judah.

But Naomi replied, “Return home, my daughters. Why would you go with me? Are there still sons in my womb to become your husbands?

Return home, my daughters. Go on, for I am too old to have another husband. Even if I thought there was hope for me to have a husband tonight and to bear sons,

would you wait for them to grow up? Would you refrain from having husbands? No, my daughters, it grieves me very much for your sakes that the hand of the LORD has gone out against me.”

“Do not call me Naomi,” she replied. “Call me Mara, because the Almighty has dealt quite bitterly with me.

I went away full, but the LORD has brought me back empty. Why call me Naomi? After all, the LORD has testified against me, and the Almighty has afflicted me.”

And Ruth the Moabitess said to Naomi, “Please let me go into the fields and glean heads of grain after someone in whose sight I may find favor.” “Go ahead, my daughter,” Naomi replied.

She has said, ëPlease let me glean and gather among the sheaves after the harvesters.í So she came out and has continued from morning until now, except that she rested a short time in the shelter.”

Then Naomi said to her daughter-in-law, “May he be blessed by the LORD, who has not withdrawn His kindness from the living or the dead.” Naomi continued, “The man is a close relative. He is one of our kinsman-redeemers.”

One day Ruthís mother-in-law Naomi said to her, “My daughter, should I not seek a resting place for you, that it may be well with you?