Quotes on hope
Our fear must save our hope from swelling into presumption, and our hope must save our fear from sinking into despair. (Matthew Henry)
It has been said that man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, and about eight minutes without air – but only one second without hope. (Anon)
The future is as bright as the promises of God. (Adoniram Judson)
Everything that is done in the world is done by hope. No husbandman would sow a grain of corn if he hoped not it would grow up and become seed…Or no tradesman would set himself to work if he did not hope to reap benefit thereby. (Luther)
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow. (Orison Swete Marden)
I rejoice in the hope of that glory to be revealed, for it is no uncertain glory that we look for. Our hope is not hung upon such an untwisted thread as, “I imagine so,” or “It is likely,” but the cable, the strong tow of our fastened anchor, is the oath and promise of him who is eternal verity. Our salvation is fastened with God’s own hand, and with Christ’s own strength, to the strong stake of God’s unchangeable nature. (Samuel Rutherford)
Our ground of hope is that God does not weary of mankind. (Ralph W. Sockman)
Do not look to your hope, but to Christ, the source of your hope. (Spurgeon)
Hell is hopelessness. It is no accident that above the entrance to Dante’s hell is the inscription, “Abandon hope, you who enter here.” (Dostoevsky)
Hope is faith in the future tense. (Peter Anderson)
What an excellent ground of hope and confidence we have when we reflect upon these three things in prayer – the Father’s love, the Son’s merit and the Spirit’s power! (Thomas Manton)
Without something to look forward to our personalities disintegrate. Buzz Aldrin, the second man to step onto the moon’s surface, suffered from mental depression in the year following his Apollo 11 mission…He describes how he had spent most of his life competing for difficult goals. Now, with his moon walk…behind him, he suffered from “the melancholy of all things done”.’ (Source unknown)