Quotes About Expectation

The Barbers had said they would arrive by three. It was like waiting to begin

But she was used to that by now, used to this kind of waiting, that was slack as worn elastic yet had the tautness of wire.

You want to find something, but you don't know what to search for. In everyone there's a continuous desire and expectation; deep inside, you still expect something better to happen. That is why you check your email many times a day.

Much, much stress results from your wanting to make things happen before their times have come.

Waiting for Me to work, with your eyes on Me, is evidence that you really do trust Me.

And now, dear children, continue in him, so that when he appears we may be confident and unashamed before him at his coming. —1 JOHN 2:28

Instead of trying to fit this day into a preconceived mold, relax and be on the lookout for what I am doing. This mind-set will free you to enjoy Me and to find what I have planned for you to do. This is far better than trying to make things go according to your own plan. Don

What's it like where they live?" "It's everything you want it to be.

I reminded myself I shouldn't knock the wig off her head. My betrothed might be here, and first impressions were important.

Maybe you'll be pleased, or relieved, or — how dreadful that I don't know what you'll be. That's the problem, right there in a nutshell.

Just once, I'd like to find a boy. And I like him and he likes me. And we have a laugh and the kissing's really good and there's no-one getting in the way of the laughing and the kissing. Is that too much to ask?

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness.

In an age of madness, to expect to be untouched by madness is a form of madness. But the pursuit of sanity can be a form of madness, too

In each instance Jesus advocates grace beyond retribution and expectation. He does not advocate passivity but active generosity that deconstructs the system because of the presence of the kingdom. Surrendering one's rights for the good of the other manifests the Jesus Creed and its variant, the Golden Rule

Every Jew in Galilee and everywhere else, and I mean every one of them, when they heard Jesus say "the kingdom," looked for three things: king, land, citizens.

Perhaps it is easiest to define "meek" by saying Jesus was meek: "for I am gentle [same word as our beatitude] and humble31 in heart" (11:29). Moreover, in entering Jerusalem on a donkey, Jesus fulfilled an Old Testament expectation of the meek king (21:5).

We expect others to act rationally even though we are irrational.

That was what they were so clearly doing here: they were waiting. And not in any suspense, either, not in any anxiety as to the outcome of their vigil. They were waiting with no apparent emotion at all, as one might sit over the course of an evening, watching a candle methodically burn itself into darkness, never less than certain of the outcome, confident that the only thing standing between now and the end of waiting was time itself.

The future never enters the present as a finished product, but that doesn't stop people from expecting it to arrive that way.

As a rule, everyone who launched something was expected to stay online for a few hours to ensure things went smoothly.

of course i have learned over the years that my fantasies are always better than reality and i leave it at that.

i thought to myself well if there's a sucker out there it may as well be me for believing this jerk would stay in business if he paid all his writers like he was going to pay me. i mean he must not have even realized that poetry doesn't sell!

God has always promised to do more than we would ever ask or imagine. It's just that so few of us take Him up on His offer.

Hope is what we all build lives for ourselves upon, is it not?