"I believe in the sun even when it is not shining. I believe in love even when feeling it not. I believe in God even when He is silent." - Inscription on a cellar wall in Germany where Jews hid from Nazis

"The only thing that can defeat the faith God has given you…is you. You must use your faith, exercise your faith, engage your faith. Until it is pressed into service, faith is only potential. To use the old exercise cliché, you must 'use it or lose it!'" - Andrew Merritt in My Faith Is Taking Me Someplace

"Remember it is the very time for faith to work when sight ceases. The greater the difficulties, the easier for faith; as long as there remain certain natural prospects, faith does not get on even as easily as where natural prospects fail." - George Mueller, quoted in Streams in the Desert

"At its best, our age is an age of searchers and discoverers. At its worst, it is an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it. The fiction that celebrates this last state will be the least likely to transcend its limitations, since, when the religious need is banished successfully, it usually atrophies, even in the novelist. The sense of mystery vanishes. A kind of reverse evolution takes place. The whole range of feeling is dulled." - Flannery O'Connor in "Mystery and Manners", Christianity Today: February 9, 1998

The Just Shall Live By Faith
Charles Wesley in The Unpublished Poetry of Charles Wesley, Vol. II

"O that I might the power receive
The simple life of faith to live.
A stranger by the world unknown,
To live, shut up with Christ alone!
Jesus, my real Life Thou art,
Inspire
Thyself into my heart,
And fill'd with purity drive
I live, thro' endless ages thine."

"I feel like God's leading me out, so I'm kind of sleeping with my shoes on. When God parts the sea, you don't want to say, 'Oh rats, where are my sandals?'"

"The amazing thing about the whole joy of Christianity is it's something you can't find, it's something that has to find you. Once we submit ourselves to God, the things of God chase us down like dogs, and you can't escape them. I think we can stifle the Spirit. We can thwart the work of God in our own lives. We can choose to nourish that which should be crucified and ignore that which should be nourished, but God ain't done with any of us."

"Faith is walking with God. The biggest problem with life is that it's just daily. You can never get so healthy that you don't have to continue to eat right…Spiritually, we're in much the same place…it's not what you did, and not what you say you're going to do, it's what you do today.'"

"Our faith becomes real when we focus on what never changes instead of our ever-changing opinions." - Rich Mullins, CCM November, 1997

"We have now moved from the burden of raising money to the adventure of trusting God." - Author unknown

"If our faith is something that really does not make a very big difference, if it is actually not crucial that we or others believe, no wonder it seems boring to our young. Anything we don't care much about can't be very interesting. The things we do care about, however, we inevitably talk about…If faith is real, it seeks expression. It will communicate and profess. It will have the energy of passion." - John F. Kavanaugh in The Word Encountered

"Faith in God will not get for you everything you may want, but it will get for you what God wants you to have. The unbeliever does not need what he wants: the Christian should want only what he needs." - Vance Havner in By the Still Waters

"At various times, Jesus publicly denounced sinners as snakes, dogs, foxes, hypocrites, fouled tombs, and dirty dishes. So that His hearers would not miss the point. He sometimes referred to the objects of His most intense ridicule both by name and by position, and often face to face. Christ did not affirm sinners; He affirmed the repentant. He well understood that sometimes it is wrong to be nice." - Theologian Michael Bauman, quoted in Tabletalk, June 1996, page 58

"Faith is the vitamin that makes all we take from the Bible digestible and makes us able to receive it and assimilate it. If we do not have faith, we cannot get anything." - A.W. Tozer in Rut, Rot or Revival

"It is your living faith in the adequacy of the One who is in you, which releases His divine action through you." - W. Ian Thomas in The Saving Life of Christ

"Faith does not operate in the realm of the possible. There is no glory for God in that which is humanly possible. Faith begins where man's power ends." - George Mueller

Faith

"Never deprive someone of hope-it may be all they have." - Author unknown

"A religious hope does not only bear up the mind under her sufferings, but makes her rejoice in them." - Joseph Addison

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

"What can be hoped for which is not believed?" - Augustine of Hippo

"Hope is a good breakfast, but it is a bad supper." - Francis Bacon

"The glory of the star, the glory of the sun-we must not lose either in the other. We must not be so full of the hope of heaven that we cannot do our work on the earth; we must not be so lost in the work of the earth that we shall not be inspired by the hope of heaven." - Phillips Brooks

"The word "hope" I take for faith; and indeed hope is nothing else but the constancy of faith." - John Calvin

"If you do not hope you will never discover what is beyond your hopes." - Clement of Alexandria

"All human wisdom is summed up in two words - wait and hope." - Alexander Dumas

"Great hopes make great men." - Thomas Fuller

"If it were not for hopes, the heart would break." - Thomas Fuller

"Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out." - Vaclav Havel

"The word which God has written on the brow of every man is hope."- Victor Hugo

"It is more serious to lose hope than to sin." - John of Carpathos

"Where there is no hope, there can be no endeavor." - Samuel Johnson

"Whatever enlarges hope will also exalt courage." - Samuel Johnson

"The future is as bright as the promises of God." - Adoniram Judson

"There is no better or more blessed bondage than to be a prisoner of hope." - Roy Z. Kemp

"We must accept finite disappointment, but we must never lose infinite hope." - Martin Luther King

"We stand in life at midnight; we are always at the threshold of a new dawn." - Martin Luther King, Jr.

"My only hope is that I shall be clothed with the righteousness of Jesus Christ." - M. Lloyd-Jones

"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." - Martin Luther

"Courage is like love; it must have hope for nourishment." - Napoleon

"The Christmas message is that there is hope for a ruined humanity - hope of pardon, hope of peace with God, hope of glory - because at the Father's will Jesus Christ became poor, and was born in a stable so that thirty years later He might hang on a cross." - J. I. Packer

"Hope is the pillar that holds up the world. Hope is the dream of a waking man." - Pliny the Elder

"It is not the end of joy that makes old age so sad, but the end of hope." - Jean Paul Richter

"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." - C. H. Spurgeon

"Without Christ there is no hope." - C. H. Spurgeon

"While I breathe, I hope." - Anonymous

"Despondency is ingratitude; hope is God's worship." - Henry Ward Beecher

"My hope is built on nothing less / Than Jesus' blood and righteousness." - William Bradbury

"Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless." - G. K. Chesterton

"There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow." - G. K. Chesterton

"Of all delusions perhaps none is so great as the thought that our past has ruined our present, that the evils we have done, the mistakes we have committed, have made all further Hope impossible." - Archbishop Goodier

"It is silly not to hope…Besides I believe it is a sin." - Ernest Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea

"Hope is the mother of faith." - Walter Savage Landor

"I live in hope." - Proverb (French)

"Christ is our hope of glory and the glory of our hope." - Anonymous

"A man full of hope will be full of action." - Thomas Brooks

"We are refugees from the sinking ship of this present world order, so soon to disappear; our hope is fixed in the eternal order, where the promises of God are made good to his people in perpetuity." - F. F. Bruce

"When you stop hoping you are on the vestibule of hell, for there is no hope there." - A. J. Cronin

"Hope is the only tie which keeps the heart from breaking." - Thomas Fuller

"Faith and a good conscience are hope's two wings." - William Gurnall

"The ground of our hope is Christ in the world, but the evidence of our hope is Christ in the heart." - Matthew Henry

"The Christian hope is the hope of a time when even the possibility of our sinning will be over. It is not the hope then of a return to the condition of Adam before the Fall but the hope of an entrance into a far higher condition." - J. Gresham Machen

"From Christ's death flow all our hopes." - J. C. Ryle

"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

"If a Jew pawned his bed-clothes, God provided mercifully that it should be restored before night: "For," saith He, "That is his covering: wherein shall he sleep?" (Exodus 22:27). Truly, hope is the saint's covering, wherein he wraps himself, when he lays his body down to sleep in the grave: "My flesh," saith David, "shall rest in hope." - William Gurnall

"Nothing more unbecomes an heavenly hope than an earthly heart." - William Gurnall

"Hope is faith in the future tense." - Peter Anderson

"Bless God that there is in us resurrection life, and that there awaits us a resurrection morn!" - J. J. Bonar

"Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds." - Thomas Brooks

"Hope is never ill when faith is well." - John Bunyan

"Where there is no hope there is no faith." - William Gouge

"He that was our help from our birth ought to be our hope from our youth." - Matthew Henry

"Our fear must save our hope from swelling into presumption, and our hope must save our fear from sinking into despair." - Matthew Henry

"Hoping is disciplined waiting." - E. Hoffmann

"Hope is the mother of patience." - William Jenkyn

"My future is as bright as the promises of God." - Adoniram Judson

"I am walking toward a bright light and the nearer I get the brighter it is." - D. L. Moody

"The future belongs to those who belong to God. This is hope." - W. T. Purkiser

"The nature of hope is to expect that which faith believes." - Richard Sibbes

"The Christian hope is not a matter for tickling our minds but for changing our lives and for influencing society." - Stephen Travis

Hope