Quotes about Anticipation

Downsides rarely have an upside unless you are ready for them on the front end.

The first definition of planning that I ever learned was this: planning is predetermining tomorrow's results today.

Begin your thirty-day trial of expecting the best of everything.

Expectation ... quickens desire, while possession deadens it.

When your memories exceed your dreams, the end is near.

When the sun went down, the sky lit up like Jesus was coming back.

God forbid that anyone should neglect present duties! To sit idly waiting for Christ, and not to attend to the business of our respective positions is not Christianity but fanaticism. Let us only remember in all our daily pursuits that we serve a Master who is coming again. If I can stir up just one Christian to think more of that second coming and to give it more prominence, I feel that this book will not have been published in vain.

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

Good things are coming. I know it. Today's disappointment is making room for tomorrow's appointment. Let's look for those good things with great intentionality.

If you wait for what your heart desires, you treasure it more when you finally do get it.

Wisdom makes decisions today that will still be good for tomorrow.

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.