Quotes on Hope & Confidence
Christian quotes on Hope & Confidence — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.
By gentle powers wonderfully sheltered, we quietly await what e'er may come. God is with us at evening and in morning, and most assuredly on each new day.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
For those who love God, he turns everything into good, even their wrong turns and mistakes God lets become good for them.
Augustine of Hippo
God helps at the latest, just in time.
Arno Backhaus
God always finishes what He starts.
John MacArthur
Commit your ways and whatever grieves your heart to the most faithful care of him who governs heaven! He who gives paths, course, and way to clouds, air, and winds will also find a way for your foot to walk.
Paul Gerhardt
That the birds of worry and grief fly over your head, you cannot change. But that they build nests in your hair — that you can prevent.
Martin Luther
When we are crushed like grapes, we cannot think of the wine we will become.
Henri Nouwen
When a train goes through a tunnel and it gets dark, you don’t throw away the ticket and jump off. You sit still and trust the engineer.
Corrie ten Boom
God does not fulfill all our wishes, but all his promises.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Whatever tomorrow may bring, our God is a God of tomorrow too.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
I want you to know that we will reach God's kingdom. That's why I am happy today. I am not worried about anything. My eyes have seen the glory of the coming Lord.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Faith enables us to hew stones of hope out of the mountain of despair.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I believe that God can and wants to let good come out of everything, even the worst. For that he needs people who let all things serve them for the best.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
For all that has been - Thanks. For all that will be - Yes.
Dag Hammarskjöld
Whoever knows Easter cannot despair.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
Whoever lets dear God alone govern and hopes in him at all times, him he will wondrously sustain in every trouble and sorrow. Whoever trusts God, the Most High, has not built on sand.
Georg Neumark
You can never fall deeper than into the open hands of God.
Arno Backhaus
Having no arms and legs isn't as bad as having no hope!
Nick Vujicic
I believe in the sun, even when it doesn't shine; I believe in love, even when I don't feel it; I believe in God, even when he is silent.
Unknown
Never be afraid to trust an unknown future to a known God.
Corrie ten Boom
The man who drives the plow looks neither back nor into immeasurable distances, but at the next step he must take; looking back is not a Christian thing. Leave fear, sorrow, and guilt behind. But look to the one who has given you a new beginning.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The early Christians did not say “look what the world is coming to!” but “look what has come into the world!”
Carl F.H. Henry
It may be that the Last Day will dawn tomorrow; if so, we will gladly lay down our work for a better future, but not before.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
There is fulfilled life despite many unfulfilled wishes.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
This is the end – for me the beginning of life.
Dietrich Bonhoeffer
The world is more than its burden, and life is more than the sum of its gray days.
Alfred Delp
Where would we end up // if everyone said // where would we end up // and no one went // to see for once // where one would end up // if one went.
Kurt Marti
Faith comes and goes. It rises and falls like the tides of an invisible ocean. If it is presumptuous to think that faith will stay with you forever, it is just as presumptuous to think that unbelief will.
Flannery O'Connor
Fairy tales do not tell children the dragons exist. Children already know that dragons exist. Fairy tales tell children the dragons can be killed.
Gilbert Keith Chesterton
Faith is taking the first step even when you can't see the whole staircase.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I have a dream that my four little children will one day live in a nation where they will not be judged by the color of their skin but by the content of their character.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I have a dream that one day little black boys and girls will be holding hands with little white boys and girls.
Martin Luther King Jr.
Hatred paralyzes life; love releases it. Hatred confuses life; love harmonizes it. Hatred darkens life; love illuminates it.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I believe that unarmed truth and unconditional love will have the final word in reality. This is why right, temporarily defeated, is stronger than evil triumphant.
Martin Luther King Jr.
I would like to share with you two simple truths: there is nothing that cannot be forgiven, and there is no one un-deserving of forgiveness.
Desmond Tutu
Suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.
Charles Dickens
Death is no more than passing from one room into another. But there's a difference for me, you know. Because in that other room I shall be able to see.
Helen Keller
How far that little candle throws his beams! So shines a good deed in a weary world.
William Shakespeare
If I am not today all that I hope to be, yet I see Jesus, and that assures me that I shall one day be like Him.
Charles Haddon Spurgeon
We shall not cease from exploration And the end of all our exploring Will be to arrive where we started And know the place for the first time.
T.S. Eliot
People quoted here
Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Augustine of Hippo, Arno Backhaus, John MacArthur, Paul Gerhardt, Martin Luther, Henri Nouwen, Corrie ten Boom, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Martin Luther King Jr., Dag Hammarskjöld, Georg Neumark
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