Quotes and Bible Verses for Strength, Hope, and Hard Times

Sorrow and silence are strong, and patient endurance is godlike.

The strongest of all warriors are these two — Time and Patience.

He that wrestles with us strengthens our nerves, and sharpens our skill. Our antagonist is our helper.

I can do all things through Christ which strengtheneth me.

But they that wait upon the LORD shall renew their strength; they shall mount up with wings as eagles; they shall run, and not be weary; and they shall walk, and not faint.

My flesh and my heart faileth: but God is the strength of my heart, and my portion for ever.

Until the day when God will deign to reveal the future to man, all human wisdom is contained in these two words, Wait and hope.

Hope is necessary in every condition. The miseries of poverty, sickness and captivity would, without this comfort, be insupportable.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Hope is brightest when it dawns from fears.

For I know the thoughts that I think toward you, saith the LORD, thoughts of peace, and not of evil, to give you an expected end.

Now the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace in believing, that ye may abound in hope, through the power of the Holy Ghost.

It is of the LORD’s mercies that we are not consumed, because his compassions fail not. They are new every morning: great is thy faithfulness.

There are more things, Lucilius, likely to frighten us than there are to crush us; we suffer more often in imagination than in reality.

Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Enjoy the present day, trusting very little to the morrow.

Peace I leave with you, my peace I give unto you: not as the world giveth, give I unto you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid.

Be careful for nothing; but in every thing by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God. And the peace of God, which passeth all understanding, shall keep your hearts and minds through Christ Jesus.

Casting all your care upon him; for he careth for you.

Although the world is full of suffering, it is full also of the overcoming of it.

Beware of desperate steps. The darkest day, Live till to-morrow, will have pass’d away.

In man’s most dark extremity Oft succor dawns from Heaven.

When thou passest through the waters, I will be with thee; and through the rivers, they shall not overflow thee: when thou walkest through the fire, thou shalt not be burned; neither shall the flame kindle upon thee.

And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God, to them who are the called according to his purpose.

Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil: for thou art with me; thy rod and thy staff they comfort me.

It was a high counsel that I once heard given to a young person,—always do what you are afraid to do.

The direst foe of courage is the fear itself, not the object of it; and the man who can overcome his own terror is a hero and more.

Nothing is terrible except fear itself.

Have not I commanded thee? Be strong and of a good courage; be not afraid, neither be thou dismayed: for the LORD thy God is with thee whithersoever thou goest.

Fear thou not; for I am with thee: be not dismayed; for I am thy God: I will strengthen thee; yea, I will help thee; yea, I will uphold thee with the right hand of my righteousness.

For God hath not given us the spirit of fear; but of power, and of love, and of a sound mind.

’Tis better to have loved and lost, Than never to have loved at all.

Give sorrow words; the grief that does not speak Whispers the o’er-fraught heart and bids it break.

Where there is sorrow, there is holy ground.

Blessed are they that mourn: for they shall be comforted.

The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit.

He healeth the broken in heart, and bindeth up their wounds.