Quotes About Expectation

Peace is our inner wealth. This inner wealth we can bring to the fore only when we expect nothing from the outer world and everything from the Supreme Pilot within us, at God's Choice Hour

Always God's goodness is the ground of our expectation.

God gave Davie Cooper a talent. He would not be disappointed with how it was used

Comfort, or revelation: God owes us one of these, but surely not both.

I thought it was very elegant, a wonderful opening. The vegans seemed so surprised-God knows what they get to eat.

The instant I reach Heaven, I'm going to speak to God very sharply.

Is there a cookie at the end of this lecture? ... I got a cookie after all ... Dear god, the cookie was poisoned.

We all know the disappointments that come when we base anticipation on what we and other humans can deliver. God will never have a problem delivering!

I had looked forward so eagerly to leaving the horrible place, yet when my release came and I knew that God's sunlight was to be free for me again, there was a certain pain in leaving

We would all believe in God if he served our every whim. Belief is not about an easy life or even truth. Belief is something you have regardless.

As we come to the Bible, we can come with the holy anticipation of actually meeting with God.

With a sacred expectation, I look for God in ALL of the circumstances of my day.

The camera guys can't mess up. God bless them, they hardly ever do. But they literally don't know what's going to happen next. None of us do. And it all has to come together and be funny.

We long for more and God's promise is that there is more awaiting us. More to delight us than we will ever exhaust.

Father expected a good deal of God. He didn't actually accuse God of inefficiency, but when he prayed his tone was loud and angry, like that of a dissatisfied guest in a carelessly managed hotel.

We learn to trust man when he does what we expect him to do; we learn to trust God when He doesn't do what we expect Him to do.

Anybody who's in the dressing room after the show always says, "Oh, my God, I was kind of worried that the show was going to be sleepy because you were half asleep, yawning, and not really present."

There is no limit to what God's people can expect their God to do if they are rightly related to Him.

I swear to God, I would marry the first person who asked me, just because it seems so completely impossible that anyone would ask.

For me, because I've had classical theater training, when people say, "Oh, my god, the play is amazing!," I'll never get to see it because I'm in it.

Oh God. She probably thinks we were off doing—you know—romantic type, um, things—

I cannot see why we should expect an infinite God to do better in another world than he does in this.

The most malicious god is the god of the counted chicken.

Fear of God failing us leads us to "cover for God." This means we ask, expect, and are satisfied with less.