Quotes About Expectation

A man is like a novel: until the very last page you don't know how it will end. Otherwise it wouldn't even be worth reading.

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.

Life is so constructed that an event does not, cannot, will not, match the expectation.

Things were good. He had things to look forward to. That, for now, was to be his definition of living - to always have a thing to look forward to.

To promise is to grant the future, it's a lie waiting to happen

Life is only worth living because we hope it will get better and we'll all get home safely.

I promise you that this isn't going to be our future, Kitten. I will give that to you—a normal life."Her eyes glistened. "I don't expect a normal life. I just expect a life with you

manic depression is the result of the sum of repetitiveness in life and expecting a different result.

When we get impatient because something is taking too long, we should remember that Life waits on us a thousand times more than we wait on Life.

Hope for the best and Prepare for the Worst.

Your promise is someone's hope. Keep your promises.

Hope is assurance of the promise..

Living did not mean one joy piled upon another. It was merely the hope for less pain...

If he's like any other man I've ever met, it's not my smile he's going to be looking at.

When it comes to strong miracles, the empirical situation tends to be "jam yesterday, jam tomorrow, but never jam today.

I began to understand the security of the covenant of grace, and to expect to be preserved, not by my own power and holiness, but by the mighty power and promise of God, through faith in an unchangeable Savior.

When it comes to self-worth, laughter is not just about fresh perspective; it is also about liberation. When we laugh at ourselves, we do more than just see those burdens of expectation that have often weighed us down for years. In a moment of hilarity, we can also free ourselves from those burdens.

What if you could walk into every interaction expecting a smile, a new friend, and a true connection? What if every moment was seen as a miracle? What if each interaction was seen not from the perspective of what might go wrong next, but from one certain that the best is yet to come? Fear. Or love. It's a choice. What will you choose?

There was no question in my mind on that muggy August day that within less than a year - and on my father's birthday - Look Back in Anger would have opened, in what still seems like an inordinately long, sharp and glimmering summer.

I guarantee that tomorrow there will be something that will happen, that has never happened before. That is something to look forward too. And the best part of tomorrow is that there is another one just a day later.

It seems like it has been forever. But i getbthe feeling that forever hasn't even started yet.

Faithfulness is only half the equation. God expects fruitfulness as well.

Anxiety seems to be an intense desire for something, accompanied by a fear of the consequences of not receiving it.

I have the profound sense that many people who complain of not being able to rejoice in God treat the knowledge of God as something that ought to be easy to get. They are passive. They expect spiritual things to happen to them from out of nowhere.