Quotes about Anticipation

Nobody knocks here, and the unexpected sounds ominous.

The modern mind longs for the future as the medieval mind longed for Heaven. The great aim of modern life has been to improve the future—or even just to reach the future, assuming that the future will inevitably be "better.

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but molds it to its purpose.

To live strongly and creatively in the kingdom of the heavens, we need to have firmly fixed in our minds what our future is to be like. We want to live fully in the kingdom now, and for that purpose our future must make sense to us. It must be something we can now plan or make decisions in terms of, with clarity and joyful anticipation. In this way our future can be incorporated into our life now and our life now can be incorporated into our future.

Don't worry, better days are coming. They are called Friday, Saturday and Sunday.

You think the winter will never end, and then, when you don't expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light.

But in his dream he knew their way was prepared, and in their time they would rise up joyful.

The future was coming to me, but I had not so much as lifted a foot to go to it.

next year she would have another birthday, and if she just remembered to get into bed left foot first and to turn the pillow over before she went to sleep, who knows what might happen?

I feel better! I feel! I feel!" until he quit that too and said quietly, looking at the familiar wall, the familiar twin door through which he was about to pass, with tragic and passive clairvoyance: "Something is going to happen to me.