Quotes About Hope

The main thing is our attitude. We can pray earnestly to God for relief and still be submissive to Him regarding the outcome.

Your worst days are never so bad that you are beyond the reach of God's grace. And your best days are never so good that you are beyond the need of God's grace.

The universal testimony of those who have suffered for the sake of Christ and His church is that they have experienced a deep fellowship, an intimate communion with Him in the midst of their sufferings.

But God never explains to us what He is doing, or why. There is no indication that God ever explained to Job the reasons for all of his terrible sufferings.

Satan, whose very first act toward man was to question the goodness of God, will even plant the thought in our minds that God is up in heaven mocking us in our distress.

If God's love was sufficient for my greatest need, my eternal salvation, surely it is sufficient for my lesser needs, the adversities I encounter in this life.

in order to trust God in adversity we must believe that God is completely sovereign, perfect in love, and infinite in wisdom.

God never wastes pain. He always uses it to accomplish His purpose. And His purpose is for His glory and our good.

We, too, if we would speak of the Lord's great faithfulness, must turn from our circumstances to the Lord.

As Lamentations 3:33 states, "For he does not willingly bring affliction or grief to the children of men.

Above all else, our response to adversity should be to seek God's glory.

The assurance here is that God will show compassion. It is not enough to say that He is compassionate, but He will show compassion.

He is with us in our troubles.

There is a vast difference between failing and becoming a failure. We become a failure when we give up—when we stop trying. But as long as we are working on those sinful habits, regardless of how often we fail, we have not become a failure, and we can expect to see progress.

We were not drowning people needing a life ring—we were dead people in need of life. Further, we were slaves to the world, to the devil, and to our own sinful natures. And as we've already seen, we were by nature objects of God's holy wrath. Dead, slaves, objects of wrath—what a desperate condition!

Our music's kind of about taking something ugly and making it beautiful.

Through these adversities, Israel has endured with continued strength, conviction, and faith.

Pope John Paul II brought hope to all corners of the world, to people of all faiths and backgrounds, with his powerful belief in the human spirit.

We shouldn't make requests of God to try to prove that He is listening and that He loves us. We should make our requests because He is listening and He loves us.

Nothing of Eternal Value is ever accomplished apart from prayer.

But hey, when you live in Watts, you need a little smack to get by, you know what I mean? You need something soft and comfortable in your life, 'cause you're not going to get it from what's around you. And society isn't going to give it to you.

Every silver lining has a touch of grey.

What's been great about the human race gives you a sense of how great you might get, how far you can reach.

College was especially sweet because of the positive, hopeful atmosphere of a college campus.