Quotes about Expectations

That's how love got lost ... when we started laying down rules for when love should or shouldn't appear.

There can be no deep disappointment where there in not deep love.

You can never rise any higher than your expectations of yourself. Since they are completely under your control, be sure that your expectations are consistent with what you want to see happen. Always expect the best of yourself.

At some level, every relationship is assaulted by an aroma of judgment - this sense that we will never measure up to the expectations and demands of another.

Contempt is conceived with expectations. Respect is conceived with expressions of gratitude. We can choose which one we will obsess over-expectations, or thanksgivings. That choice will result in a birth-and the child will be named either contempt, or respect.

it may feel as if they just want you to stop being you.

The story of Isaac and Rebekah is an account of what was, but not necessarily of what should be for all of God's people.

Harmony, joy, and peace will never grace a home ruled by expectations instead of by the cross.

We never slept together until our wedding night, so the honeymoon was a rather intoxicating experience, but once the honeymoon was over, reality immediately set in like a dense Seattle fog.

If we think that serving God always leads to greater prosperity, we're selectively reading our Bibles.

Getting married won't make you happy or an adult; getting married simply makes you … married.

We have a duty to meet our spouse in their need. Correspondingly, we also have a Christian duty not to demand too much of our spouse.