Quotes about Expectation

A man's delight in looking forward to and hoping for some particular satisfaction is a part of the pleasure flowing out of it, enjoyed in advance. But this is afterward deducted, for the more we look forward to anything the less we enjoy it when it comes.

Although we might settle for less, Heavenly Father won't, for he sees us as the glorious beings we are capable of becoming.

The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.

True simplicity implies love and trust—it does not expect to be derided and rejected, any more than it expects to be admired and praised.

But if we love God for something less than Himself, we cherish a desire that can fail us. We run the risk of hating Him if we do not get what we hope for.

He is heard only when we hope to hear Him, and if, thinking our hope to be fulfilled, we cease to speak, His silence ceases to be vivid and becomes dead, even though we recharge it with the echo of our own emotional noise.

One reason why we are less fervent than we ought to be is that we cripple our own spirit by taking ourselves too seriously. We expect too much from ourselves when we ought to expect everything from God on Whom we utterly depend.

Think how your life would be changed if you passionately longed for and lived every day as if this would be the moment Jesus would return!

A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.

All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.

I know there are a lot of people who believe in me as a player and a person, and I don't want to let them down.