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Hope
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“Faith is the oil which feeds the lamp of hope. Faith and hope are two turtle-dove graces; take away one, and the other languishes. If the sinews are cut, the body is lame; if this sinew of faith is cut, hope is lame.”
“In this world there is a door of hope, a day, an offer, and means of grace, space for repentance, a Mediator in Heaven a patient God.”
“It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope.”
“O be not too quick to bury the Church before she is dead.”
“Christ's resurrection is the ground-work of our hope. And the new birth is our title or evidence of our interest in it.”
“It is better to be as low as hell with a promise, than in Paradise without one.”
“Jesus, our head, is already in heaven; and if the head be above water, the body cannot drown.”
“If thy hope be any thing worth, it will purify thee from thy sins.”
“To go back is nothing but death: to go forward is fear of death, and life everlasting beyond it. I will yet go forward.”
“Be not cast down. If ye saw Him who is standing on the shore, holding out His arms to welcome you to land, ye would wade, not only through a sea of wrongs, but through hell itself to be with Him.”
“I rejoice in the hope of that glory to be revealed, for it is no uncertain glory that we look for. Our salvation is fastened with God's own hand, and with Christ's own strength, to the strong stake of God's unchangeable nature.”
“Affliction may be lasting, but it is not everlasting.”
“Hope itself is like a star, not to be seen in the sunshine of prosperity, and only to be discovered in the night of adversity.”
“Faith goes up the stairs that love has built and looks out the windows which hope has opened.”
“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.”
“The iron bolt which so mysteriously fastens the door of hope and holds our spirits in gloomy prison, needs a heavenly hand to push it back.”
“The day of evil reveals to us the value of our glorious hope.”
“Is there nothing to sing about today? Then borrow a song from tomorrow; sing of what is yet to be.”
“Hope can see heaven through the thickest clouds.”
“A man full of hope will be full of action.”
“What is honor, and riches, and the favor of creatures, so long as I lack the favor of God, the pardon of my sins, a saving interest in Christ, and the hope of glory! O Lord, give me these, or I die!”
“When you sailors see the haven before you, though you were mightily troubled before you could see any land, yet when you come near the shore and can see a certain land-mark, that contents you greatly.”
“Oh despise not election! therein lies all your hope, that there is a remnant who shall infallibly be saved.”
“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.”
“Nothing is more contrary to a heavenly hope, than an earthly heart.”
“Let your hope of Heaven, master your fear of death. Why should you be afraid to die, who hope to live by dying!”
“The storm may be tempestuous, but it is only temporary.”
“To those to whom Christ is the hope of future glory, he is also the life of present grace.”
“The gospel shall be victorious.”
“You will say, “When we come to heaven, we shall be above the malice of all the wicked men in the world.” No, there is a time when the saints shall be above the malice of wicked men upon this earth.”