Quotes About Expectation

Live as if ye expected (your prayers) to be answered.

Prayer is the Word of God which comes to you when you are silent enough, still enough, expectant enough to receive it.

The reason why we obtain no more in prayer is because we expect no more. God usually answers us according to our own hearts.

Most Christians expect little from God, ask little, and therefore receive little and are content with little.

Make your goals big and broad enough so that they never become answered prayers and boomerang to curse you.

More tears are shed over answered prayers than unanswered ones.

Oh, I wish that God had not given me what I prayed for! It was not so good as I thought.

Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse.

What if I pulled through and the pious faction contentedly claimed that their prayers had been answered? That would somehow be irritating.

When God is about to give His people the expected good, He pours out a Spirit of prayer, and it is a good sign that He is coming towards them in mercy.

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for they think the whole thing is a fraud.

Nothing echoes like an empty mailbox.

To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.

Give people more than they expect, and do it cheerfully.

To love without need or without expectation of restitution, that is how we ought to love.

I don't believe that hard work equals success. It can, and maybe it should, but I know that it doesn't. There's a very slight relationship between the two.

As human beings, we always expect everyday change to happen slowly and steadily, and for there to be some relationship between cause and effect.

Our relationship to reality and to our experience is all based upon the ideas in our mind that we're always trying to live up to.

There is no relationship between the gestures and what an orchestra will do.

One of the first essentials in securing a good-natured equanimity is not to expect too much of the people amongst whom you dwell.

Her shoes were comfortable. They reflected her hope for the evening.