Research on Hope

Here is my research on hope so far for this Sunday. I hope you find something inspiring and helpful.

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God. -Charles L. Allen

But God remembered Noah and all the wild animals and livestock with him in the boat. He sent a wind to blow across the earth, and the floodwaters began to recede. –Genesis 8:1

Hope is the dream of a soul awake. -French Proverb

As we pray to our God and Father about you, we think of your faithful work, your loving deeds, and the enduring hope you have because of our Lord Jesus Christ. -Thessalonians 1:3

Most of the important things in the world have been accomplished by people who have kept on trying when there seemed to be no hope at all. -Dale Carnegie

Hope arouses, as nothing else can arouse, a passion for the possible. -William Sloan Coffin

Three things will last forever—faith, hope, and love—and the greatest of these is love. -1 Corinthians 13:13

Hope begins in the dark, the stubborn hope that if you just show up and try to do the right thing, the dawn will come. You wait and watch and work: you don't give up. -Anne Lamott

All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ. It is by his great mercy that we have been born again, because God raised Jesus Christ from the dead. Now we live with great expectation, and we have a priceless inheritance—an inheritance that is kept in heaven for you, pure and undefiled, beyond the reach of change and decay. And through your faith, God is protecting you by his power until you receive this salvation, which is ready to be revealed on the last day for all to see. -1 Peter 1:3-6

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars. –Oscar Wilde

Learn from yesterday, live for today, hope for tomorrow. –Albert Einstein

Such things were written in the Scriptures long ago to teach us. And the Scriptures give us hope and encouragement as we wait patiently for God’s promises to be fulfilled. -Romans 15:4

In all things it is better to hope than to despair” -Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

Hope never abandons you; you abandon it. -George Weinberg

I will never forget this awful time, as I grieve over my loss. Yet I still dare to hope when I remember this: The faithful love of the Lord never ends! His mercies never cease. Great is his faithfulness; his mercies begin afresh each morning. I say to myself, “The Lord is my inheritance; therefore, I will hope in him!” -Lamentations 3:20-24

Hope is faith holding out its hand in the dark. -George Iles

Dum spiro, spero. While I breath, I hope. -Latin Proverb

But joyful are those who have the God of Israel as their helper, whose hope is in the LORD their God. -Psalm 146:5

Hope is the feeling that the feeling you have isn't permanent. -Jean Kerr

What oxygen is to the lungs, such is hope to the meaning of life. -Emil Brunner