Christian Hope Quotes:

This is Christian hope, that the future is in God's hands.

- Pope Francis

topic: Christian, Hands, Christian Hope

Let this one great, gracious, glorious fact lie in your spirit until it permeates all your thoughts and makes you rejoice even though you are without strength. Rejoice that the Lord Jesus has become your strength and your song - He has become your salvation.

- Charles Spurgeon

topic: Hope, Song, Jesus, Christian Hope

Our Christian hope is that we are going to live with Christ in a new earth, where there is not only no more death, but where life is what it was always meant to be.

- Timothy Keller

topic: Christian, Earth, Life Is, Christian Hope, New Earth

Hope means expectancy when things are otherwise hopeless.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

topic: Hope, Mean, Expectancy, Christian Hope

The best we can hope for in this life is a knothole peek at the shining realities ahead. Yet a glimpse is enough. It's enough to convince our hearts that whatever sufferings and sorrow currently assail us aren't worthy of comparison to that which waits over the horizon.

- Joni Eareckson Tada

topic: Christian, Hope, Heart, Christian Hope

Optimism is a wish without warrant; Christian hope is a certainty, guaranteed by God himself. Optimism reflects ignorance as to whether good things will ever actually come. Christian hope expresses knowledge that every day of his life, and every moment beyond it, the believer can say with truth, on the basis of God's own commitment, that the best is yet to come.

- J. I. Packer

topic: Christian, Life Changing, Ignorance, Best Is Yet To Come, Warrants

Many things are possible for the person who has hope. Even more is possible for the person who has faith. And still more is possible for the person who knows how to love. But everything is possible for the person who practices all three virtues.

- Brother Lawrence

source: "To Rage Against Meaninglessness". Interview with Matt Bell, logger.believermag.com. February 6, 2014.

topic: Hope, Practice, Three, Christian Hope

Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul.

- Emily Dickinson

source: " 'Hope' is the thing with feathers" l. 1 (ca. 1862) SeeWoody Allen 20

topic: Inspirational, Hope, Soul, Hope And Faith, Extremity

Christian hope does not promise successful days to the rich and the strong, but resurrection and life to those who must exist in the shadows of death.  Success is no name of God. Righteousness is.

- Jürgen Moltmann

topic: Christian, Strong, Successful, Shadow Of Death, Successful Day

Hope means hoping when things are hopeless, or it is no virtue at all. And faith means believing the incredible, or it is no virtue at all.

- Gilbert K. Chesterton

source: Gilbert K. Chesterton (2013). “The Essential Gilbert K. Chesterton”, p.185, Simon and Schuster

topic: Faith, Believe, Inspiration, Platitudes, Christian Hope

Christian hope is not a ghost and it does not deceive. It is a theological virtue and therefore, ultimately, a gift from God that cannot be reduced to optimism, which is only human. God does not mislead hope; God cannot deny himself. God is all promise.

- Pope Francis

source: Pope Francis (2014). “My Door Is Always Open: A Conversation on Faith, Hope and the Church in a Time of Change”, p.100, A&C Black

topic: Christian, Optimism, Promise, Christian Hope

The Resurrection is the supreme vindication of Jesus' divine identity and his inspired teaching. It's the proof of his triumph over sin and death. It's the foreshadowing of the resurrection of his followers. It's the basis of Christian hope. It's the miracle of all miracles.

- Lee Strobel

source: Lee Strobel (2010). “Case for Christ: A Journalists Personal Investigation of the Evidence for Jesus (Large Print 16pt)”, p.306, ReadHowYouWant.com

topic: Christian, Jesus, Teaching, Christian Hope, Foreshadowing

The great gift of Easter is hope - Christian hope which makes us have that confidence in God, in his ultimate triumph, and in his goodness and love, which nothing can shake.

- Basil Hume

source: Basil Hume (2001). “Cardinal Hume: A Spiritual Companion : Reflections Through the Year”, Paraclete Press (MA)

topic: Faith, Christian, Hope, Jesus Christ Easter, Jesus Resurrection

Optimism is the faith that leads to achievement. Nothing can be done without hope and confidence.

- Helen Keller

source: "Optimism". Essay by Helen Keller, 1903.

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Positive, Improve Self Esteem, Inspirational Achievement

To have Christian hope means to know about evil and yet to go to meet the future with confidence. The core of faith rests upon accepting being loved by God, and therefore to believe is to say Yes, not only to him, but to creation, to creatures, above all, to men, to try to see the image of God in each person and thereby to become a lover. That's not easy, but the basic Yes, the conviction that God has created men, that he stands behind them, that they aren't simply negative, gives love a reference point that enables it to ground hope on the basis of faith.

- Pope Benedict XVI

topic: Christian, Believe, Mean, Christian Hope

The cross of Christ is the true ground and chief cause of Christian hope.

- Pope Leo I

topic: Christian, Causes, Chiefs, Christian Hope

There is no Christian Gospel if history simply unwinds into a meaningless puddle, if the cosmos simply escapes into a cataclysmic black hole, or if the universe finally dies of exhausted energy. Without belief in a biblical eschatology, there is no Christian hope. Without a sense of perfect moral judgment in the end, the human heart is homeless.

- Albert Mohler

topic: Christian, Heart, Biblical, Black Hole, Moral Judgment

Easter is meant to be a symbol of hope, renewal, and new life.

- Janine di Giovanni

topic: Easter, Morning, New Life, Jesus Christ Easter, Jesus Resurrection

The article goes on later to say, "Hope is not then something for the future alone, a sort of wishful thinking aout what might be; it offers meaning for us today. Christian hope is founded on certain faith that life is not a meaningless riddle, but a mystery progressively revealed and finding the fulfillment in the redemption won by Jesus Christ and offered to all peoples."

- Raymond J. de Souza

topic: Christian, Hope, Jesus, Christian Hope

Let Christ turn your natural optimism into Christian hope, your energy into moral virtue, your good will into genuine self-sacrificin g love! This is the path you are called to take. This is the path to overcoming all that threatens hope, virtue and love in your lives and in your culture. In this way your youth will be a gift to Jesus and to the world.

- Pope Francis

topic: Christian, Jesus, Self, Christian Hope

From Obama's book, "The Audacity of Hope:" "I am not willing to have the state deny American citizens a civil union that confers equivalent rights on such basic matters as hospital visitation or health insurance coverage simply because the people they love are of the same sex - nor am I willing to accept a reading of the Bible that considers an obscure line in Romans to be more defining of Christianity than the Sermon on the Mount."

- Barack Obama

topic: Sex, Book, Reading, Christian Hope, Visitation

The aim of all Christian education, moreover, is to train the believer in an adult faith that can make him a "new creation", capable of bearing witness in his surroundings to the Christian hope that inspires him.

- Pope Benedict XVI

topic: Christian, Inspire, Adults, Christian Education, Christian Hope

A soul so pitiably forlorn, If such do on this earth abide, May season apathy with scorn, May turn indifference to pride; And still be not unblest- compared With him who grovels, self-debarred From all that lies within the scope Of holy faith and christian hope; Or, shipwrecked, kindles on the coast False fires, that others may be lost.

- William Wordsworth

source: William Wordsworth (1848). “The Complete Poetical Works of William Wordsworth: Together with a Description of the Country of the Lakes in the North of England”, p.355

topic: Christian, Lying, Pride, Christian Hope, Forlorn

Someday I want to go back and maybe write another book on those seven sayings. I just think they are kind of like a table of contents to the Christian hope. They invite us to go into all the aspects of the heart of Jesus. Everything about them from the drama, the setting, the passion around them - I think the seven sayings of the cross are powerful.

- Max Lucado

source: Source: www.sermoncentral.com

topic: Christian, Jesus, Powerful, Christian Hope, Table Of Contents