Quotes About Hope

Everyone who was in on our plan was again thrilled by the news. To some of us the most significant thing was not the information gained but the fact that after so much fruitless searching we had located the first group of Aucas and then in a couple of weeks had stumbled over the other group. It seemed to mean that now was the Lord's time to do something about them. Again we agreed to pray about the matter and compare notes further, after the whole episode had a chance to sink in.

Heaven is not here, it's There. If we were given all we wanted here our hearts would settle for this world rather than the next. God is forever luring us up and away from this one, wooing us to Himself and His still invisible Kingdom, where we will certainly find what we so keenly long for.

Some day, even you will see that there's sense in this. Your suffering is never for nothing.

But when the answer is no, then we know that God has something better at stake. Far greater things are at stake. There is another level, another kingdom, an invisible kingdom which you and I cannot see now but toward which we move and to which we belong.

I've many a cross to take up now, And many left behind; But present troubles move me not, Nor shake my quiet mind. And what may be to-morrow's cross I never seek to find; My Father says, "Leave that to me, And keep a quiet mind." Anonymous

I say that I found peace. I do not say that I was not lonely. I was--terribly. I do not say that I did not grieve. I did--most sorely. But peace of that sort the world cannot give comes, not by the removal of suffering, but in another way--through acceptance.

He Himself has been praying for me all along: "He is able to save completely those who come to God through him, because he always lives to intercede for them" (Heb. 7:25, NIV).

Elisabeth Elliot

He has promised that our suffering will one day turn into glory if we'll respond to it in faith and obedience.

Ó Cristo, ele é a fonte, doce e profundo manancial de amor...

I must teach you to long for something better...For my uncontrollable longings for this man, Lord --- Your strength.

But I can say that I know the One who knows. And I've come to see that it's through the deepest suffering that God has taught me the deepest lessons. And if we'll trust Him for it, we can come through to the unshakable assurance that He's in charge. He has a loving purpose. And He can transform something terrible into something wonderful. Suffering is never for nothing.

How we long to point to something - anything - and say This works! This is sure! But if it is something other than God Himself we are destined for disappointment.

We need Jesus Christ, our refuge, our fortress, the stronghold of my life. It takes desolation to teach us our need of Him.

Of one thing I am perfectly sure: God's story never ends with ashes.

Like the sparrow, I've got a song to sing. Unlike the sparrow, I must sing mine by faith.

Strange—or is it?—that childish hopes should be answered in the will of God for this now?

When our plans are interrupted, His are not. God's plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always - including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable - toward the goal of true maturity.

Alma perturbada, tu não és obrigada a sentir, mas és obrigada a se levantar", escreveu George MacDonald.

A ship exists on the ocean, even if it sails out beyond the limits of our sight. The people in the ship have not vanished; they are simply moving to another shore.

We do things hopefully because they add life to our living, but not with the illusion they will help us escape death when our time comes.

La muerte no es más que una transición de esta vida a otra existencia donde ya no hay dolor ni angustia.

The belief has long died that suffering here on earth will be rewarded in heaven. Suffering has lost its meaning.

Los sueños nos enseñan que nuestro ser querido no es, en esencia, la persona enferma de la que nos despedimos entre lágrimas en el hospital. Ni tampoco es el cuerpo que vimos en el tanatorio. Nuestro ser querido está sano y salvo, es la persona que conocimos y que echamos de menos ahora.