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    Augustine of Hippo
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    Psalm 103:8, 1 John 4:16, Proverbs 3:5-6, Lamentations 3:22-23, Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28
    Trust the past to God’s mercy, the present to God’s love and the future to God’s providence.

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    Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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    Deuteronomy 30:19, Psalm 118:24, Philippians 4:6-7, Matthew 6:34, Jeremiah 29:11
    Trust no future, howe’er pleasant!  Let the dead Past bury its dead!  Act,—act in the living present!  Heart within, and God o’erhead!

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    Søren Kierkegaard
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    Romans 15:13, Hebrews 11:1, Jeremiah 29:11, Psalm 33:18, Romans 5:5
    Hope is passion for what is possible.

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    Helen Keller
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    Joshua 1:9, Jeremiah 29:11, Isaiah 41:10, Psalm 27:13-14, Romans 8:18, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Hebrews 12:1-2
    Discouraged not by difficulties without, or the anguish of ages within, the heart listens to a secret voice that whispers: "Be not dismayed; in the future lies the Promised Land.

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    Mark Batterson
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    Romans 8:28, Jeremiah 29:11, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Isaiah 55:8-9, Proverbs 3:5-6
    If you let your circumstances define the way you see God, you are a prisoner of perspective. Or worse, a prisoner of your past mistakes! But if you let God define the way you see your circumstances, y...

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    R. W. Church
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    Jeremiah 29:11, Isaiah 40:31, Lamentations 3:21-23, Psalm 33:18, Psalm 71:14, Zechariah 9:12
    Hope, never destroyed, however overthrown, never obscured even amid the storm and dust of ruin, is the prominent characteristic of the Old Testament.

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    Nelson Mandela
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    Jeremiah 29:11, Isaiah 41:10, 2 Timothy 1:7, Romans 8:15, Psalm 27:1, Philippians 4:6-7
    May your choices reflect your hopes, not your fears.

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    Billy Graham
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    Psalm 147:3, Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28, Psalm 34:18, 2 Corinthians 4:8-9
    People by nature build, tear down, and rebuild. We build our hopes, get disappointed, and then search for renewed hope.

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    Walter Brueggemann
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    Isaiah 45:18, Genesis 1:27, Romans 8:24-25, Jeremiah 29:11, 1 Peter 1:3-4, Romans 6:4
    It is there within and among us, for we are ordained of God to be people of hope. It is there by virtue of our being in the image of the promissory God. It is sealed there in the sacrament of baptism....

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    Martin Luther King, Jr.
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    Romans 5:3-5, Hebrews 11:1, Psalm 42:11, Jeremiah 29:11, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18, Romans 8:24-25, Isaiah 40:31
    We must accept finite disappointment, but never lose infinite hope.

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    Max Lucado
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    Psalm 23:1-3, Hebrews 13:5, John 10:27-28, Isaiah 30:21, Isaiah 30:21, Psalm 32:8, Jeremiah 29:11
    Jesus gives us hope because he keeps us company, has a vision, and knows the way we should go.

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    Marc Lewis
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    Jeremiah 29:11, 1 John 1:9, Psalm 32:5, Romans 8:1, Isaiah 43:18-19
    I see my past drinking as a behavioral problem, a learned response to dealing (or not dealing) with emotional pain and stress. Once I achieved the excavation of my wounds, I no longer lived with the s...

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    Ernst Bloch
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    Jeremiah 29:11, Philippians 4:13, Lamentations 3:22-23, Psalm 71:14, Hebrews 11:1, Isaiah 40:31
    It is important to learn hoping. Its work does not despair, it fell in love with succeeding rather than with failure. Hoping, located above fearing, is neither passive like the latter nor imprisoned i...

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    Eugene Peterson
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    Romans 15:13, Psalm 130:5, Jeremiah 29:11, Philippians 4:6-7, Lamentations 3:25-26, Psalm 27:14
    Hoping does not mean doing nothing. It is not fatalistic resignation. It means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions. It is not compelled to w...

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    Vaclav Havel
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    Romans 8:28, Hebrews 11:1, Jeremiah 29:11, Proverbs 3:5-6, Isaiah 55:8-9, 2 Corinthians 4:16-18
    Hope is not the conviction that something will turn out well but the certainty that something makes sense, regardless of how it turns out.

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    L. J. Suenens
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    Hebrews 11:1, Romans 5:3-5, Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 15:13, Isaiah 40:31, Proverbs 23:18, Psalm 33:22
    Hope is not a dream but a way of making dreams become reality.

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    Horace Bushnell
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    Genesis 1:26-28, Jeremiah 29:11, Exodus 1:15, Psalm 139:, Ephesians 2:10
    God has a definite plan set for every man, one that, being accepted and followed, will conduct him to the best and noblest end possible. You exist for a purpose high enough to give meaning to life and...

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    James Merritt
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    Colossians 1:15-17, Matthew 16:13-17, Mark 10:25-27, John 3:1-10, Matthew 5:43-44, Jeremiah 29:13, Hebrews 12:2
    As Tim Stafford writes, Jesus has become “deceptively familiar. People think they know all about him, so they never look at him. When they finally do, they are surprised at what they find. Jesus may s...

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    J. R. R. Tolkein
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    Jeremiah 29:11, Lamentations 3:21-23, 1 Peter 1:3-4, Psalm 27:13-14, Isaiah 40:31
    It is not despair, for despair is only for those who see the end beyond all doubt. We do not. (Spoken by Galadriel)

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    Sue Monk Kidd
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    Philippians 1:6, James 1:2-4, Jeremiah 29:11, 1 Peter 5:10, Psalm 51:10
    To fashion an inner story of our pain carries us into the heart of it, which is where rebirth inevitably occurs.

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    Henry Cloud
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    Numbers 13:25-33, Job 1:20-22 , Jeremiah 29:4-7, John 8:31-32 , 2 Corinthians 12:7-10, Psalm 34:18
    One of my favorite sayings is, no matter how difficult it is to hear, “Reality is always your friend.”

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    Rabbi Hillel
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    Esther 4:14, Genesis 4:9, Jeremiah 29:7 , Philippians 2:4, Luke 10:29-37, Psalm 82:3-4
    If I am not for myself who will be for me? If I am only for myself, who am I?

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    Jennie Allen
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    Hebrews 11:1, Romans 15:13, Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 5:3-5, Lamentations 3:21-23
    Doubt steals hope. And with no hope, everything that matters doesn’t feel as important anymore.

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    Oswald Chambers
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    Hebrews 11:8, Proverbs 3:5-6, Psalm 32:8, Jeremiah 29:11, Isaiah 42:16, John 10:28-28, Romans 8:28
    Faith never knows where it is being led, but it loves and knows the One who is leading.

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    Tom Nelson
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    Genesis 1:27–28, Exodus 31:1–5, Jeremiah 29:7, John 15:4–5, Ephesians 2:10, Psalm 128:1–2
    Human flourishing is first and foremost a flourishing of relationships—our relationship with God and with others. But human flourishing is also a product of fruitful work that reflects our God who wor...

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    Michael Frost
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    Genesis 12:1-4, Jeremiah 29:4-7, Hebrews 11:13-16, Philippians 3:20-21 , Psalm 84:5-7
    Cultural commentator Richard Sennett has claimed that the primary architectural emblem of contemporary life is the airport departure lounge.

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    Hal Lindsay
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    Psalm 42:11, Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 5:3-5, Isaiah 40:31, Lamentations 3:22-23
    Man can live about forty days without food, about three days without water, about eight minutes without air, but only for one second without hope.

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    Alexis de Tocqueville
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    1 Corinthians 2:9, Job 23:10, Romans 11:33, Psalm 37:5, Jeremiah 29:11, Romans 8:28, Isaiah 55:8-9, Proverbs 3:5-9
    I am ignorant of His designs, but I will not cease to believe in them because I cannot penetrate them. And I will prefer to doubt my own lights rather than His justice.

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    Timothy Keller
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    Galatians 1:10, Jeremiah 29:7, Matthew 5:13-14, Colossians 2:8, John 17:15-16, Acts 17:22-23, Romans 12:2
    To reach people we must appreciate and adapt to their culture, but we must also challenge and confront it. This is based on the biblical teaching that all cultures have God's grace and natural rev...

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    Seth Godin
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    Jeremiah 29:11, Philippians 4:13, Proverbs 16:3, Romans 8:28, Galatians 6:7-8
    The myth seems to be that you’re born with some magic combination of parents, DNA, and lucky breaks, and they conspire to determine what you accomplish in life. Nonsense. And a good thing, too, becaus...
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