Quotes about Expectation

Even serving God in his holy temple, Zechariah was unprepared for something holy to happen.

This wasn't the sixth month of the year; it was 'six months after Elizabeth knew she was to become a mother'. Imagine the Lord using an expectant mother's growing waistline to measure time! Never doubt for a moment that women matter to the Almighty.

A person should have as our goal complete agape (self-sacrificial love). The most we can expect from a society is to institute simple justice.

You have to expect things of yourself before you can do them.

Blessed are they who expect nothing for they shall not be disappointed.

A woman seldom asks advice before she has bought her wedding clothes.

You cannot expect victory and plan for defeat.

I shall have to produce an enormous number of things against next year - when the World's Fair will be held - seeing that my friends will not fail to have many interesting things on hand by then. Not that I myself or any of the painters I hold regular or special intercourse with are going to exhibit along with the others, but it is to be expected that there will be a free exhibition besides the official one. Now, for

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Just for once I'd like to see all these things sort of straightened out, with each person getting exactly what he deserves. It might give me some confidence in this universe.

Unlike many television evangelists, the apostle Paul seemed to expect from the Christian life not health and wealth, but a measure of suffering. He told Timothy, "In fact, everyone who wants to live a godly life in Christ Jesus will be persecuted" (2 Timothy 3:12).

Every institution, it seems, runs on ungrace and its insistence that we earn our way.