Hope

• Romans 5:3-4…Tribulations worketh patience, patience produces experience which produces hope.
• Ether 12:4…Hope for a better world (with God)
• Ether 12:32…Hope is necessary to live with God
• Moroni 7:3…By sufficient hope, one can gain eternal life
• Moroni 7:40-44…Faith and Hope (How to gain them )=eternal life
• 2 Nephi 3:20…A perfect brightness of Hope necessary to gain eternal life
• “Like a Broken Vessel”, Talk by Jeffrey R. Holland
• “…If you have problems in your life, don’t assume there is something wrong with you. Struggling with those problems is at the very core of life’s purpose.” (Bruce C. Hafen, Ensign, May 2004, 97)
• “And Gallup’s research has shown how a strengths-based approach improves your confidence, direction, hope, and kindness toward others.” StrengthsFinder 2.0 (Tom Rath) Kindle Location 232-33
• “Elder Orson F. Whitney once said: “The spirit of the gospel is optimistic; it trusts in God and looks on the bright side of things. The opposite or pessimistic spirit drags men down and away from God, looks on the dark side, murmurs, complains, and is slow to yield obedience.” We should honor the Savior’s declaration to “be of good cheer”. (Indeed, it seems to me we may be more guilty of breaking that commandment than almost any other!) Speak hopefully. Speak encouragingly, including about yourself. Try not to complain and moan incessantly. As someone once said, “Even in the golden age of civilization someone undoubtedly grumbled that everything looked too yellow.”” Broken Things to Mend (Jeffrey R. Holland) Kindle Loc. 641-46
• “After I asked our whole family to pray and fast for gunner last month, I was inspired to read the book of Enos. It gave me great hope for Gunner’s future. After my sweet boy passed…The only thing I felt to do was to reread the book of Enos again for clarity and comfort. Reading it for the second time opened my eyes up to a whole new meaning…these are the verses that stick out to my mind again today after reading it for the fourth time… they are comforting me now yet also make me cry the most. 2 And I will tell you of the wrestle which I had before God before I received a remission of my sins. 3 Behold, I went hunting beasts in the forests; and the words which I had often heard my father speak concerning eternal life, and the joy of the saints, sunk deep into my heart. 4 And my soul hungered, and I kneeled down before my Maker, and I cried unto him in mighty prayer and supplication for mine own soul, and all the day long did I cry unto him; yea, and when the night came I did still raise my voice high that it reached the heavens. 5 And there came a voice unto me, saying: Enos, thy sins are forgiven thee, and thou shalt be blessed. 6 And I, Enos, knew that God could not lie; wherefore, my guilt was swept away. 7 And I said: Lord, how is it done? 8 And he said unto me: Because of thy faith in Christ, whom thou hast never before heard nor seen. And many years pass away before he shall manifest himself in the flesh; wherefore, go to, thy faith hath made thee whole. 26 And I saw that I must soon go down to my grave, having been wrought upon by the power of God that I must preach and prophesy unto this people, and declare the word according to the truth which is in Christ. And I have declared it in all my days, and have rejoiced in it above that of the world. 27 And I soon go to the place of my rest, which is with my Redeemer; for I know that in him I shall rest. And I rejoice in the day when my mortal shall put on immortality, and shall stand before him; then shall I see his face with pleasure, and he will say unto me: Come unto me, ye blessed, there is a place prepared for you in the mansions of my Father.” @ San Clemente, California.  Trish Wilhite post to Facebook after the passing of her 20-year-old son, Gunner:  04/20/2017
• Jacob 4:2 -4…2  But whatsoever things we write upon anything save it be upon plates must perish and vanish away; but we can write a few words upon plates, which will give our children, and also our beloved brethren, a small degree of knowledge concerning us, or concerning their fathers— 3  Now in this thing we do rejoice; and we labor diligently to engraven these words upon plates, hoping that our beloved brethren and our children will receive them with thankful hearts, and look upon them that they may learn with joy and not with sorrow, neither with contempt, concerning their first parents. 4  For, for this intent have we written these things, that they may know that we knew of Christ, and we had a hope of his glory many hundred years before his coming, and not only we ourselves had a hope of his glory, but also all the holy prophets which were before us.
• Jacob 4: 6… Wherefore, we search the prophets, and we have many revelations and the spirit of prophecy; and having all these witnesses we obtain a hope, and our faith becometh unshaken, insomuch that we truly can command in the name of Jesus and the very trees obey us, or the mountains, or the waves of the sea.
• “Blessings depend on truth and obedience to the law. Said Elder Nelson years later, “You can pray all you want, you can hope all you want, but until the law is fulfilled upon which that blessing predicated, it won’t happen.” Insight’s from a Prophet’ Life, Russell M. Nelson, Page 50
• “When people learn no tools of judgment and merely follow their hopes, the seeds of political manipulation are sown.”  Stephen Jay Gould, Birth: September 10, 1941- Death: June 20, 2002
• “It is only hoped which is real, and reality is bitterness and deceit.” William Makepeace Thackeray, Birth: July 18, 1811- Death: December 24, 1863
• “And what of the meek? In a world too preoccupied with winning through intimidation and seeking to be number one, no large crowd of folk is standing in line to buy books that call for mere meekness. But the meek shall inherit the earth, a pretty impressive corporate takeover and done without intimidation! Sooner or later, and we pray sooner than later, everyone will acknowledge that Christ’s way is not only the right way, but ultimately the only way to hope and joy. Every knee shall bow and every tongue will confess that gentleness is better than brutality, that kindness is greater than coercion, that the soft voice turneth away wrath. In the end, and sooner than that whenever possible, we must be more like him.” Manual, Teachings of the President of the Church: Howard W Hunter, Chapter 1, Jesus Our Only Way to Hope and Joy