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Cursed is everyone who places his hope in man.

Augustine of Hippo

The New Zealander has a word for hope which signifies “the swimming-thought”; because when all other thoughts are drowned, hope still swims. Unanswered Prayer, Volume 59, Sermon #3344 - Psalm 22:2

Charles Spurgeon

I our Christian hope is just as good as Jesus Christ. Your anticipation for the future lives or dies with Jesus. If He is who He said He was, you can spread your wings and soar.4

A. W. Tozer

Man is fond of counting his troubles but he does not count his joys. If he counted them up as he ought to, he would see that every lot has enough happiness provided for it.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Joy is a winsome magnet that draws people in because it is one thing they do not have.

We are chosen for joy. However hard the Christian way, it is both in the travelling and in the goal, the way of joy. There is always a joy in doing the right thing. When we evade some duty or some task, when at last we set our hand to it, joy comes to us. The Christian is the man of joy. The Christian is the laughing cavalier of Christ. A gloomy Christian is a contradiction in terms, and nothing in all religious history has done Christianity more harm than its connection with black clothes and long faces.

—William Barclay, The Gospel of John, Vol. 2

William Barclay

we are not left to seartch for joy; it is brought to our doors by the love of God our Father; joy refined and satisfying befitting imortal spirits. God has not left us to wander among those unsatisfactory things which mock the chase which they invite; he has give us appetites which carnal things cannot content and he pas provide suitable satisfaction for those appetites; he has stored up at his right hand pleasures fro evermore, which even now he reveals by his spirit to those chosen one whom he has taught to long for them. - C. H. Spurgeon