Spiritual Thoughts

I n the depths of winter, I finally learned  that within me there lay an invincible summer.  -Albert Camus  BUT Christ was faithful as a son over His house-  whose house we are, IF we hold fast our confidence    and the boast of our HOPE firm until the end. -Hebrews 3:6

H e who would go a hundred miles should consider ninety-nine as halfway.   -Japanese Proverbs  If your enemy is hungry, give him bread to eat,  and if he is thirsty, give him water to drink,    for you will heap burning coals on his head      and the LORD will reward you. -Proverbs 25:21-22 (NOTE: http://biblehub.com/commentaries/proverbs/25-21.htm )

H ope springs eternal   in the human breast.  -Alexander Pope Why am I discouraged?  Why is my heart so sad?   I will put my hope in God!    I will praise Him again -      my Savior and my God! -Psalms 42:5

I n the land of hope there   is never any Winter.  -Russian Proverbs  Behold, the eye of the Lord is on those  who fear Him, on those who hope in His   steadfast love, that He may deliver them     from death and keep them alive in famine. -Psalms 33:18-19

L et your hopes, not your hurts,   shape your future.   -Robert H. Schuller  Surely there is a future,   and your hope will not be cut off. -Proverbs 23:18

HOPE is the thing with feathers  that perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words,  and never stops at all, And sweetest in the gale is heard;  and sore must be the storm That could abash the little bird   that kept so many warm. I've heard it in the chilliest land,  and on the strangest sea; Yet, never, in extremity,  it asked a crumb of me .   -Emily Dickenson  Let  Your steadfast love, O Lord,  be upon us, even as we HOPE in you. -Psalms 33:22