Quotes about Expectation
Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?
— Anonymous
Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.
— Anonymous
Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything.
— Anonymous
Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.
— Joyce Meyer
I've done everything for the wrong reasons. All the good works people credit to me are nothing because I did them expecting God to repay me. I thought if I worked hard enough, God would have to give me what I wanted. The truth is I've never served the Lord at all. I was always serving myself.
— Francine Rivers
The child chattered like a little magpie, and Angel nodded and listened. Glancing up, Angel encountered Michael's gaze. He wants children, she thought, and the thought hit her solid in the pit of her stomach. What if he knew she couldn't have them? Would his love for her die then? She couldn't hold his gaze.
— Francine Rivers
But if we hope for what we do not have, we wait for it patiently. ROMANS 8 : 25
— Francine Rivers
Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a person as if he were where he could be and should be, and he will become what he could be and should be.
— Jimmy Johnson
Each day holds a surprise. But only if we expect it can we see, hear, or feel it when it comes to us. Let's not be afraid to receive each day's surprise, whether it comes to us as sorrow or as joy It will open a new place in our hearts, a place where we can welcome new friends and celebrate more fully our shared humanity.
— Henri Nouwen
When we win, I'm excited about winning. That way, I get the ups and downs of a football season. But I also know that it's never as good as it seems; it's never as bad as seems. You always have to stay focused because you never know, for me. My role, it could expand. So you just got to always be ready.
— Tim Tebow
When will you come and how will you come and will we be ready
— Madeleine L'Engle
Finally I scrawled at the bottom of the epistle that I truly feared for this woman. We find what we are looking for. If we are looking for life and love and openness and growth, we are likely to find them. If we are looking for witchcraft and evil, we'll likely find them, and we may get taken over by them.
— Madeleine L'Engle