Quotes about Expectation
I drank to the imminent of His Coming, he repeated, with a sincere attempt to feel that the coming was imminent; but the eyebrow continued to haunt him, and the Coming, as far as he was concerned, was horribly remote.
— Aldous Huxley
Still, if one has to suffer in order to be beautiful, one must also expect to be ugly in order not to suffer.
— Aldous Huxley
God expects us to use the walkie-talkie of prayer because that is the means He has ordained not only for godliness, but also for the spiritual warfare between His kingdom and the kingdom of His Enemy. To abandon prayer is to fight the battle with our own resources at best, and to lose interest in the battle at worst.
— Donald Whitney
They are direct commands. This means too little time, too many responsibilities, too many kids, too much work, too little desire, too little experience, and so on are not excuses that exempt us from the expectation to pray.
— Donald Whitney
Life is what comes along after you have planned something else.
— Joyce Meyer
Hopes have precarious life. They are oft blighted, withered, snapped sheer off In vigorous growth and turned to rottenness.
— George Eliot
God does not expect us to imitate Jesus Christ; He expects us to allow the life of Jesus to be manifested in our moral flesh.
— Oswald Chambers
If we want that power to quicken our friends who are dead in sin, we must look to God, and not be looking to man to do it. If we look alone to ministers, if we look alone to Christ's disciples to do this work, we shall be disappointed. If we look to the Spirit of God and expect it to come from Him and Him alone, then we shall honor the Spirit, and the Spirit will do
— Jim Cymbala
For every promise, there is price to pay.
— Jim Rohn
We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.
— Jimmy Carter
You do projects with the hope they will be big and hope they will go beyond what you imagine.
— Kevin Hart
Not yet do you feel it. Wait for the future.
— Euripides