Quotes About Hope

God's purpose is not limited by your past.

When life has meaning, you can bear almost anything; without it, nothing is bearable.

Nunca sabrás que Dios es todo lo que necesitas hasta que él sea todo lo que tengas.

Without God life makes no sense.

If there was no God, we would all be "accidents," the result of astronomical random chance in the universe. You could stop reading this book, because life would have no purpose or meaning or significance. There would be no right or wrong, and no hope beyond your brief years here on earth.

Hope is as essential to your life as air and water. You need hope to cope. Dr. Bernie Siegel found he could predict which of his cancer patients would go into remission by asking, "Do you want to live to be one hundred?" Those with a deep sense of life purpose answered yes and were the ones most likely to survive. Hope comes from having a purpose.

How would it make you feel if God showed you what you could have accomplished in life if you had just believed him a little bit more?

God specializes in turning weaknesses into strengths. He wants to take your greatest weakness and transform it.

Para evitar que nos aferremos demasiado a esta tierra, Dios permite que experimentemos algún grado de incomodidad y tristeza en nuestras vidas, o sea, anhelos que nunca serán satisfechos de este lado de la eternidad.

When our dreams shatter and we feel helpless, that's when we have to believe in God's power and presence.

Behold at thy feet, O Mother of Perpetual Help, O Mother of mercy, my refuge and my hope.

Remember how far you've come, not just how far you have to go. You are not where you want to be, but neither are you where you used to be.

When you think of the limitation in your life, you may be tempted to conclude, "God could never use me." But God is never limited by our limitations.

There is no greater antidepressant than communication and fellowship with God.

Your most profound and intimate experiences of worship will likely be in your darkest days - when your heart is broken, when you feel abandoned, when you're out of options, when the pain is great - and you turn to God alone.

You may have had so many failures at changing the way you eat or exercise or think or act that the possibility of lasting change feels like an unreachable goal. Well, to be honest with you, it probably will be — unless you plug into God's power. What is impossible from a human standpoint is easy to God. With God, today's impossibility is tomorrow's miracle.

So don't be troubled by trouble. Circumstances cannot change the character of God. God's grace is still in full force; he is still for you, even when you don't feel it. In

Jesus said, "With man this is impossible, but with God all things are possible" (Matthew 19:26).

You have to trust God even when you don't get what you want.

As C. S. Lewis observed, "All that is not eternal is eternally useless." The Bible says, "We fix our eyes not on what is seen, but on what is unseen. For what is seen is temporary, but what is unseen is eternal."12

When life gets tough, when you're overwhelmed with doubt, or when you wonder if living for Christ is worth the effort, remember that you are not home yet. At death you won't leave home — you'll go home.

Why would God provide heaven on earth when he's planned the real thing for you in eternity?

The apostle Paul said, "Everything that was written in the past was written to teach us, so that through endurance and encouragement of the Scriptures we might have hope" (Rom. 15:4).

La superviviente del holocausto Corrie Ten Boom dijo: «Si miras el mundo, te angustiarás. Si miras dentro de ti, te deprimirás. Pero si miras a Cristo, encontrarás descanso».