Quotes About Hope

You heard Me say, ëI am going away, and I am coming back to you.í If you loved Me, you would rejoice that I am going to the Father, because the Father is greater than I.

And now I have told you before it happens, so that when it does happen, you will believe.

I have told you these things so that My joy may be in you and your joy may be complete.

“I have told you these things so that you will not fall away.

Instead, your hearts are filled with sorrow because I have told you these things.

But I tell you the truth, it is for your benefit that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send Him to you.

in regard to sin, because they do not believe in Me;

in regard to righteousness, because I am going to the Father and you will no longer see Me;

In a little while you will see Me no more, and then after a little while you will see Me.”

Then some of His disciples asked one another, “Why is He telling us, ëIn a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Meí and ëBecause I am going to the Fatherí?”

Aware that they wanted to question Him, Jesus said to them, “Are you asking one another why I said, ëIn a little while you will not see Me, and then after a little while you will see Meí?

Truly, truly, I tell you, you will weep and wail while the world rejoices. You will grieve, but your grief will turn to joy.

A woman has pain in childbirth because her time has come; but when she brings forth her child, she forgets her anguish because of her joy that a child has been born into the world.

So also you have sorrow now, but I will see you again and your hearts will rejoice, and no one will take away your joy.

Until now you have not asked for anything in My name. Ask and you will receive, so that your joy may be complete.

In that day you will ask in My name. I am not saying that I will ask the Father on your behalf.

I have told you these things so that in Me you may have peace. In the world you will have tribulation. But take courage; I have overcome the world!”

For You granted Him authority over all people, so that He may give eternal life to all those You have given Him.

But now I am coming to You; and I am saying these things while I am in the world, so that they may have My joy fulfilled within them.

I am not asking that You take them out of the world, but that You keep them from the evil one.

I am not asking on behalf of them alone, but also on behalf of those who will believe in Me through their message,

This was to fulfill the word He had spoken: “I have not lost one of those You have given Me.”

Then the band of soldiers, with its commander and the officers of the Jews, arrested Jesus and bound Him.

This was to fulfill the word that Jesus had spoken to indicate the kind of death He was going to die.