Quotes About Hope

If there is an after, I hope it's not dark. And I hope you can remember. I'd hate to wander around in the dark forever, not knowing who I was or what I was doin' here, or not even knowing that I'd ever had anything different.

Now the only way out is straight up to Heaven.

All Christian men should read the Scriptures, buy unto themselves Bibles, and meditate continually upon the word of God, so as, thereby, their eyes might be opened, their consciences comforted, their faith nourished, and their hope lifted up to a full assurance of the promises therein contained.

For I am fully of this opinion, that the hope which many men have conceived of the spoil of bishops' livings, of the subversion of cathedral churches, and of a havoc to be made of all the Church's revenues, is the chiefest and most principal cause of the greatest schisms that we have at this day in our Church.

The best thing about the future is that it's in front of you. The best thing about the past is that it lies behind.

These unconscious skills can be skills that are detrimental to our well-being, including depressing ourselves, hesitating, stressing ourselves out, or feeling terrified and hopeless. Conversely, they can also be skills of motivating ourselves, becoming relaxed, or being more confident and hopeful.

When you look at the belief that it is going to be here for the rest of your life, I want you to do a few small things with it. Literally, push the picture off in the distance and move it over and pull it up into that place of uncertainty so, when you look at it and think, Am I gonna be stuck like this forever? You say, Ehhh, maybe yes, maybe no.

The techniques I'm describing to you aren't techniques that you just do once, but things that you run over and over and over in your mind till they become familiar, to move away from pain and move toward hope. The more you move away from pain and white out your pain and see yourself in your pain—and the more you look at yourself doing the things you want to do—the more you'll begin to change your direction.

Freedom in the Bible is a broad and complex notion ... It embraces freedoms FROM (exploitation, for example), freedoms OF (choice, for example), freedoms FOR (service to others, for example), freedoms TO (hope, for example).

Christ leads me through no darker rooms than He went through before.

Thou has heard the words of Christ. . . . Dost thou weep, when I have thee, Poor soul, what aileth thee? Dost thou weep, when I have wept so much? Be of good cheer ; thy wounds are saving, and not deadly. It is I that have made them, who mean thee no hurt : though I let out thy blood, I will not let out thy life (628).

How will it fill our souls with perpetual joy, to think that in the streams of this blood we have swum through the violence of the world, the snares of Satan, the seductions of flesh, the curse of the law, the wrath of an offended God, the accusations of a guilty conscience, and the vexing doubts and fears of an unbelieving heart, and are arrived safely at the presence of God!

O let us not be as the purblind world, that cannot see afar off ; let us never look at the grave, but let us see the resurrection beyond it(42).

If anything keep thy soul out of heaven, which God forbid, there is nothing in the world liker to do it, than thy false hopes of being saved, while thou art yet out of the way to salvation(234). (III.III)

Yet I must tell you, that all these graces which are expressed by passions of sorrow, fear, joy, hope, love, are not so certainly to be tried by the passion that is in them, as by the will that is either contained in them, or supposed in them; not as acts of the sensitive, but of the rational appetite (358).

If your hope dieth, your duties die, your endeavors die, your joys die, and your souls die. And if your hope be not acted, but lie asleep, it is next to dead, both in likenss and preparation( 585).

Miracles are disruptive. When the dust settles there is always damage done – not all the hungry are fed, and not all the sick are healed.

It's like a drug, the feeling you could make a difference....

It is amazing to watch God do through us what we could never accomplish on our own. It is comforting to know we have a God who is, always faithful, desires more for us than we could imagine, and perfectly capable of doing the impossible.

If you are presently facing significant challenges in your life, trust in the Lord! Be an aggressive responder who lives with alert expectancy!

Nothing is as real as dreams.

I didn't know the full dimensions of forever, but I knew it was longer than waiting for Christmas to come.

Moderation was the effect of congenital optimism. Why push too hard at an open door?

It was as simple as walking and as hard as walking on with so far gone and so far yet to go.