Quotes about Expectation
They gave our Master a crown of thorns, why do we hope for a crown of roses?
— Martin Luther
The word advent means "expectation." What advent can do for us is create a sense of hope.
— Louie Giglio
True faith is ever connected with hope.
— John Calvin
Anger is really disappointed hope.
— Erica Jong
Hope is the positive mode of awaiting the future.
— Emil Brunner
When hope is not pinned wriggling onto a shiny image or expectation, it sometimes floats forth and opens.
— Anne Lamott
The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.
— Samuel Johnson
We are setting ourselves up for disappointment if our hope is built on anything less than Jesus.
— Shane Claiborne
We hold on to hope, and hope robs us of the present moment.
— Pema Chodron
What you hope for, you also fear.
— Alice Walker
Hope itself is a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness which this world affords; but, like all other pleasures immoderately enjoyed, the excesses of hope must be expiated by pain.
— Samuel Johnson
What kind of future is in God's plan? A good one to which you can look forward. That's why you can hope.
— James MacDonald