Quotes about Expectation

let us not expect too much from our own hearts here below. At our best we shall find in ourselves daily cause for humiliation, and discover that we are needy debtors to mercy and grace every hour.

Our God is a God of order, and a God who works by means, and we have no right to expect His cause to be kept up by constant miraculous interpositions, while His servants stand idle.

Expect the unexpected. Focus on what you can control and acknowledge what's out of your control.

Many wonderful things in life do not come wrapped in the packages we think they should. God used a carpenter, not a king, to save the world.

baby-sitting their roast in his oven? Who knew what he would be doing for them next?

We can't live in an alternate reality and expect what's right in front of us to get better.

Standing underneath those broken boards helped me to see why. I couldn't keep my old broken beliefs, nail a little Jesus truth to the side, and expect stability.

Dear Lord, I want to wait in calm and patient expectation today. Please take my exhaustion and turn it into expectation; take my feelings of hopelessness and give me real hope. I want to stop resisting Your truths and start applying them. I will do all that I can today, and I will wait with anticipation for all that You will do through me. In Jesus' name. Amen.

Instead of looking at life with the hope of receiving love, I started expecting rejection.

I can't expect a perfection in others I'm not even capable of living out myself.

God seems to be of the opinion that no one should sustain the rigors of the Christian life without very robust and concrete hopes of brazen reward.

Be a yardstick of quality. Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected.