Quotes About Expectancy

The Acts has so much to say to our half-hearted and cold-blooded Christianity in the western world. It rebukes our preoccupation with buildings and ministerial pedigree, our syncretism and pluralism, our lack of expectancy and vibrant faith. As such it is a book supremely relevant for our time.

Developing diabetes in childhood appears to cut life expectancy by about twenty years.32 Who among us wouldn't go to the ends of the earth to enable our kids to live two decades longer?

If your husband expects you to laugh, do so; if he expects you to cry, don't; if you don't know what he expects, what are you doing married?

abiding peacefully, prayerfully, patiently, passionately, and persistently in God's presence, looking to the future with expectancy and hope.

You are a product of your own personal environment. What you have observed and what you have been taught affects your level of expectancy and can hinder you from receiving the miracle you need.

The seventh blast symbolises the seventh day, a time of stillness or rest, the interval between the subjective and objective states, a period of pregnancy or joyful expectancy. This stillness is not the stillness of the body but rather the stillness of the mind—a perfect passivity which is not indolence but a living stillness born of trust in this immutable law of consciousness.

Happy life years can be seen as happiness-adjusted life expectancy. The measurement has a powerful logic to it. It recognizes that a satisfying life is not ideal if it is short; and that a long life is not ideal if it is miserable.

Expectations is the place you must always go to before you get to where you're going.

when we have the right relationship with God, life is full of spontaneous, joyful uncertainty and expectancy.

O Lord, I have no inkling of Thy ways in external details, but I have the expectancy of Thy wonders soon to be. made visible. Lord, I look to Thee, how completely at rest I am, yet how free from seeing Thy way. Thou art God and I trust in Thee.

Keep your life so constantly in touch with God that His surprising power can break through at any point. Live in a constant state of expectancy, and leave room for God to come in as He decides.

What's bothering you? Did you read that paragraph in Sports Illustrated? The one about life expectancy for people with Alzheimer's? Yes. I read it. What did you think? Look, I think it's a guess, and a bad one. It's an average. [Crying] What upsets you the most? I want to see my son grow up.

Thank goodness that's over," she said, taking the crown off and throwing it across the cave. It hit the wall and bounced off with a harsh clang. "You shouldn't treat your crown like that, Your Majesty," Cimorene said, retrieving the iron circlet. "Of course I should," Kazul said. "It's expected. That's why we made it out of iron instead of something soft and bendable. ...

His brogue tipped the ends of his sentences up expectantly. I always thought he was about to say something more, but then he didn't. Jock

Expectancy is the emotion that is triggered when faith is sensed in the human spirit.