Quotes About Hope

Therefore, people cannot make a new beginning at all; they can only pray for one. Where people are on their own and live by their own devices, there is only the old, the past.

It is the wonderful theme of the Bible, so frightening for many people, that the only visible sign of God in the world is the cross.

Easter? Our attention falls more on dying than on death. How we deal with dying is more important to us than how we conquer death. Socrates overcame dying; Christ overcame death.

Come now, let us argue it out,      says the LORD: though your sins are like scarlet,       they shall be like snow; though they are red like crimson,      they shall become like wool. Isaiah 1:18

God is not with the stronger battalions but with the small host of the praying, watchful congregation. God's strength is powerful in the weak.

What is the power of Christ? It is the hidden, secret power of the cross and of suffering.

To live in the light of the resurrection - that is what Easter means

the only visible sign of God in the world is the cross.

where the cross stands, the resurrection is near.

We have something to hide. We have secrets, worries, thoughts, hopes, desires, passions which no one else gets to know. We are sensitive when people get near those domains with their questions. And now, against all rules of tact the Bible speaks of the truth that in the end we will appear before Christ with everything we are and were…. And we all know that we could justify ourselves before any human court, but not before this one. Lord, who can justify themselves

it was Dietrich Bonhoeffer who more than anybody else realized that nothing less than a return to the Christian faith could save Germany.

Christ is knocking. It's still not Christmas, but it's also still not the great last Advent, the last coming of Christ.

The God who is with us is the God who forsakes us (Mark 15.34). The God who lets us live in the world without the working hypothesis of God is the God before whom we stand continually. Before God and with God we live without God. God lets himself be pushed out of the world on to the cross. He is weak and powerless in the world, and that is precisely the way, the only way, in which he is with us and helps us.

All we can do is to live in assurance and faith – you out there with the soldiers, and I in my cell.

Death cannot keep back love; love is stronger than death. The meaning of Good Friday and Easter Sunday is that God's path to human beings leads back to God.11 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, "Lectures to the Congregation in Barcelona

Jesus does not tell us what we ought to do but cannot; he tells us what God has given us and promises still to give.

Herr, was dieser Tag auch bringt – dein Name sei gelobt.

Costly grace is the gospel which must be sought again and again, the gift which must be asked for, the door at which a man must knock.

Jesus himself did not try to convert the two thieves on the cross; he waited until one of them turned to him.

Expecting a lot from people, you do a lot of smiling; Needing many things for yourself, you have many needs to meet; Making plans to do first this, then that, your mind's full of hopes and fears— From now on, come what may, don't be like that.

Ah! Fount of compassion, my root teacher, Lord Chenrezi, You are my only protector! The six-syllable mantra, essence of your speech, is the sublime Dharma; From now on I have no hope but you!

The end of the rope stops in the palm of God.

We dare not forget the power of prayer.

Do not view the Lord as your temporary solution; see Him as your eternal Savior.