Quotes About Expectation

Nor is the world a stage or a prison. Simply, because there is no difference between the prisoner and the individual who is about to go on stage; they have no idea what to expect there. Both suffer from the disease of expectation.

Patience is good sometimes, but useless when you know deep inside that you have been waiting for nothing.

Some people claim that expectation is the source of all misery, while others claim that attachment is the root cause.

The love of God is the kind of love that doesn't expect to be loved!

The more you wish, the more you increase your level of expectation.

The only best way to prove that a statue can't provide for you is to ask it for food.

The word 'enough' doesn't exist inside our minds when it comes on achieving and receiving for our pleasure.

We can't force anyone to give out to charity or predict how much we can gain from a charitable organisation.

We must not, however, see everything with a pessimist's eyes. Our eyes should be set upon a bright star and always expecting the best, rather than always expecting for the worst cases to happen.

Everyone loves Hershey's Kisses and Hugs. I'm waiting for Hershey's Gropes.

A man with long hair and green spectacles had a "decidedly free love look," and "several young ladies of very bad behavior" were "evidently professional." They coexisted with many "respectable looking people." A redheaded girl grabbed a seat, threw off a soggy shawl, and grumped, "I hope, by gosh, I haven't come here for nothing in all this rain." She would not be disappointed.

Three things I have longed to see," murmured Miss Cynthia, pointedly. "The sea serpent, a white rhinoceros, and an unselfish man.

Justification is not how someone becomes a Christian. It is the declaration that they have become a Christian. And the total context of this doctrine, here in Philippians 3, is that of the expectation - not of a final salvation in which the individual is abstracted from the present world, but of the final new heavens and new earth, as the Lord comes from the heavenly realm to transform the earthly

Jesus's message to his contemporaries, and the church's message about Jesus, never fit what people expect. Often enough, they don't fit what the church itself expects.

People who believe that Jesus is already Lord and that he will appear again as judge of the world are called and equipped (to put it mildly) to think and act quite differently in the world from those who don't.

The ultimate future hope remains a surprise, partly because at present we only have images and metaphors for it, leaving us to guess that the reality will be far greater, and more surprising, still.

Whoever heard of a crucified Messiah?

We expect to suffer, but we know already that we are victorious.

the radically new thing God did was nevertheless the thing he'd always promised

Thus it won't do to say there is nothing that can be done to improve matters before Jesus returns. Yes, the second coming will accomplish all sorts of things of which at present we can only dream. I do not expect to see the wolf lying down with the lamb within the present state of creation, and if I were to meet a lion in the street (fortunately, an unlikely event in eastern Scotland), I would not rely on its having read Isaiah 11 and knowing that it should now be vegetarian.

He was not the king they expected.

You should sit," Lucas said, and he wasn't talking to Mercy. Sascha stared at him. "I didn't realize pregnancy of four weeks' duration made me incapable of standing upright." "It makes me incapable of reason.

Am I too early?" "No. He's waiting for you." The smile faded, to be replaced by a slightly disappointed expression. "I thought you'd be . . . scarier.

because he was going to marry her. "It is customary to ask," she now said as she turned to watch him button up a black shirt over that chest she'd licked and sucked and kissed not long ago. "Why?" He shrugged. "I'm not giving you a choice.