Quotes - Hope !
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- "Do not begin to measure your safety by your comfort - but measure it
by the eternal Word of God, which you have beleived and which you know to be
true. CH Spurgeon
- "If our joy is derived from the hope of a future life, then patience
will grow up in adversities; for no kind of sorrow will be able to overwhelm
this joy" John Calvin
- "The death and resurrection of Christ means: expiation and destruction
of sin / freedom from condemnation / satisfaction of God's justice for the
forgiveness of sin / victory over death / attainment of righteousness / the
hope of a blessed immortality." John Calvin
- "We should ask God - - to increase our hope when it is small, awaken
it when it is dormant, confirm it when it is wavering, strengthen it when it is
weak and raise it up when it is overthrown. " John Calvin
- "The biblical view of resurrection means that every horrible thing
that ever happened will not only be undone and repaired but
will in someway make the eventual glory and joy even
greater....." Tim Keller
- C.S. Lewis said - - "They say of some temporal suffering, no future
bliss can make up for it, not knowing that Heaven, once attained, will work
backwards and turn even that agony into a glory."
- "No matter how deep our darkness -- -- He is deeper still."
Corrie Ten-Boom
- "I could never myself believe in God if it were not for the
cross......In the real world of pain, how could one worship a God who was
immune to it? I have entered many Buddhist temples in different Asian countries
and stood respectfully before the statute of Buddha - - his legs crossed, arms
folded, eyes closed, the ghost of a smile playing round his mouth, a remote
look on his face, detached from the agony of the world. But each time, after
awhile, I have had to turn away. And in imagination, I have turned instead to
that lonely, twisted, tortured figure on the cross -- nails through his hands
and feet, back lacerated, limbs wrenched, brow bleeding from thorn pricks,
mouth dry and intolerably thirsty, plunged in God-forsaken darkness. That is
the God for me ! He laid aside his immunity to pain. He entered our world of
flesh and blood, tears and death. He suffered for us. Our sufferings become
more manageable in light of his. There is still a question mark against human
suffering, but over it we boldly stamp another mark, the cross, which
symbolizes divine suffering. The cross of Christ is God's only self
justification in such a world as ours." John Stott
- "The enemy troops are in front of us, in our back, to the right and to
the left - - We are totally surrounded ! This time, the enemy cannot escape
!" American army officer in WWII
- "In any discussion of disappointment with God, heaven is the last
word, the most important word of all. Only heaven will solve the problem of
God's hiddenness. For the first time, human beings will be ale to look upon God
face to face." Phillip Yancey
- "Only the suffering God can help." Dietrich Bonhoffer scribbled
that note in a Nazi prison camp
- "God never closes a door without opening a window." (He always
gives us something better when He takes something away.) Joni Earecskon Tada
- "Wounded people who have been broken by suffering and sickness ask for
only one thing: a heart that loves and commits itself to them; a heart full of
hope for them." Jean Vanier
- "The greatest book in my library is the book of affliction"
Martin Luther
- "God will never waste a sorrow." Kimber Kauffman, pastor College
Park Baptist Church, Indpls, IN
- "God, grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change,
courage to change the things I can, and the wisdom to know the difference.
Living one day at a time; Enjoying one moment at a time; Accepting hardship as
the pathway to peace. Taking, as he did, this sinful world as it is, not as I
would have it; Trusting that he will make all things right if I surrender to
his will; That I may be reasonably happy in this life, and supremely happy with
Him forever in the next." Reinhold Niebuhr
- "At the supreme moment of His dying, Jesus so identified Himself with
men and the depths of their predicament and agony that no man can now sink so
low that God has not gone lower." Os Guiness
- Suffering here means glory there. You cannot begin to understand suffering
from this side of eternity, Kimber Kauffman, pastor College Park Baptist
Church, Indpls, IN
- "Now, while a man can pray, he is never far from light. The man who
can pray has the clue in his hand by which to escape from the labyrinth of
affliction. A man must have true and eternal life within him while he can
continue still to pray; and while there is such life, there is assured
hope". Charles Spurgeon on Psalm 88
- "How in the world does suffering ultimately produce hope? The answer
is really very simple. As we lean on the Lord in faith during our suffering, we
learn that He is faithful to His promises to be with us and to sustain us and
to comfort and strengthen us. That, in turn, motivates us to have even greater
faith in the promises He has made about the life to come - our hope that we
will be resurrected and glorified and will live forever with our Heavenly
Father." - Dr. David Reagan
- "When I was on my feet, big boisterous pleasures provided only
fleeting satisfaction. In a wheelchair, satisfaction settles in as I sit under
an oak tree on a windy day and delight in the rustle of the leaves or sit by a
fire and enjoy the soothing strains of a symphony. These smaller, less noisy
pleasures are rich because, unlike the fun on my feet, these things yield
patience, endurance, and a spirit of gratitude, all of which fits me further
for eternity. It is this yieldedness that gains you the most here on
earth." Joni Eareckson Tada
- "Wherever you are, be all there. Live to the hilt every situation you
believe to be the will of God." Jim Elliot
- "The fact that disabled people hang in there does something for
Christians. It's not about being an inspiration for others, it more than
that.... it's a mystery. God somehow strengthens others by their faithfulness.
They may feel like a burden to others, but God thinks the opposite. He thinks
its necessary for others to take care of the disabled... they do more for one's
spiritual well being than can be imagined. What's more is that it's all being
credited to the disabled person's account, per Phillipians 1:25-26. If the
disabled person is alone and does not meet others, they must endure for the
purpose of teaching the unseen powers, the rulers, and authorities in the
heavenly realms about the powerful and all sustaining Lord (Eph 3:10)."
Joni Eareckson Tada
- "What gain has been made compared to the little that has been lost!
You will have lost the 'creature' and gained the 'Creator'. You will have lost
your nothingness in order to gain all things. You will be boundless, for you
have inherited God! Your capacity to experience His life will grow just a
little more. Everything you once had, and lost, will be returned to you in
God." Madame Guyon
- Seven things To Do from Joshua Wooden - father of legendary basketball
coach John Wooden:
- Be true to yourself
- Help Others
- Make each day your masterpiece
- Drink deeply from good books, especially the Bible
- Make friendship a fine art
- Build a shelter (of faith) against a rainy day
- Pray for guidance and count and give thanks for your blessings every day
- "He that commits suicide to get out of trouble leaps intot he gulf to
escape from the water, drowns himself to keep from getting wet, leaps into the
fire because he is scorched." Charles Spurgeon
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