Let this one great, gracious, glorious fact lie in your spirit until it permeates all your thoughts and makes you rejoice even though you are without strength. Rejoice that the Lord Jesus has become your strength and your song - He has become your salvation.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
The Spurgeon Archive
Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "The rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6).
William Gurnall
Online Works
Hope is patiently waiting expectantly for the intangible to become reality.
Avery D. Miller
He that lives in hope danceth without music.
George Herbert
Biography
When you say that a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.
Charles L. Allen
A man without hope makes an indifferent soldier; one without cheerfulness is worse than useless.
Lord Wolseley
Obituary
Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.
Gilbert Keith G. K. Chesterton
American Chesterton Society
Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all... As long as matters are really hopeful, hope is mere flattery or platitude; it is only when everything is hopeless that hope begins to be a strength.
Gilbert Keith G. K. Chesterton
American Chesterton Society
When God comes down, He removes the immovable difficulties. When God comes down, the impossible becomes reality. God moves on behalf of the one who waits.
Anonymous
Where others see but the dawn coming over the hill, I see the soul of God shouting for joy.
William Blake
Archive
If you feel like you're at the end of your rope, tie a knot and hang on! Because God's a God of miracles, and He's holding the other end.
Pat Hicks
The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It's enough to convince our hearts that whatever sufferings and sorrows currently assail us aren't worthy of comparison to that which waits over the horizon.
Joni Eareckson Tada
Joni and Friends
His purposes will ripen fast, Unfolding every hour, The bud may have a bitter taste, But sweet will be the flower.
William Cowper
Biography
If preachers decide to preach about hope, let them preach out of what they themselves hope for.
Frederick Buechner
Short Biography
Hope is much more than a mood. It involves a committment to action...What we hope for should be what we are prepared to work for and do bring about as far as that power lies in us.
John Polkinghorne
Hope has two beautiful daughters Their names are anger and courage; anger at the way things are, and courage to see that they do not remain the way they are.
Augustine
Works and Biography
If you have been reduced to God being your only hope, You are in a good place.
Jim Laffoon
Bethel World Outreach Center
God is not a deceiver, that He should offer to support us, and then, when we lean upon Him, should slip away from us.
Augustine
Works and Biography
Death is the sinner's penalty but the saint 's promotion.
Anonymous
Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues.
Brother Lawrence
Biography And Works
He who breathes into our hearts the heavenly hope, will not deceive or fail us when we press forward to its realization.
Anonymous
I choose joy... I will invite my God to be the God of circumstance. I will refuse the temptation to be cynical... the tool of the lazy thinker. I will refuse to see people as anything less than human beings, created by God. I will refuse to see any problem as anything less than an opportunity to see God.
Max Lucado
Upwords
He who breathes into our hearts the heavenly hope, will not deceive or fail us when we press forward to its realization.
Anonymous
July 8, 2005
Hope fills the afflicted soul with such inward joy and consolation, that it can laugh while tears are in the eye, sigh and sing all in a breath; it is called "the rejoicing of hope" (Hebrews 3:6).
William Gurnall
Online Works
God hasn't given up on you. He can still do great things for you, in you, and through you. God is ready and waiting and able. What about you, and me?
Peter Marshall
Spiritual Portrait
Beloved, whatever you are waiting for or believing for, God will not be late. The Lord is the the Healer. He is just. He is the dreamer of dreams and He answers prayers. Be ssured that He will bring that prodigal home..... Don't give up hope and one day you will see the resurrection you have been waiting for, come your way!
Cindy Jacobs
Generals of Intercession
I remember once walking along the beach with a friend. We spoke intensely about our relationship, trying hard to explain ourselves to each other and to understand each other's feelings. We were so preoccupied with our mutual struggle that we didn't notice the magnificent sunset spreading a rich spectrum of colour over the foam-capped waves breaking on the wide, silent beach. Suddenly my friend exclaimed: "Look. look at the sun, look!" He put his arm around my shoulder, and together we gazed at the shimmering ball of fire vanishing gradually below the horizon of the wide ocean. At that moment, we both knew about hope and joy.
Anonymous
The sins against hope are despair, as anticipated failure, and presumption, as anticipated fulfilment. In both these cases man seeks to break out of his pilgrim existence and have his life otherwise than from the hand of God.
Ferdinand Kerstiens
A Christian may for many days together see neither sun nor star, neither light in God's countenance, nor light in his own heart, though even at that time God darts some beams through those clouds upon the soul; the soul again by a spirit of faith sees some light through those thickest clouds, enough to keep it from utter despair, though not to settle it in peace. In this dark condition, if they do as Paul and his company did, cast an anchor even in the dark night of temptation, and pray still for day, God will appear, and all shall clear up, we shall see light without and light within; the day-star will arise in their hearts.
Richard Sibbes
Brief Biography and Article
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