Quotes about Disappointment
If it were Christ's intention to save all men, how deplorably He has been disappointed!
- Charles Spurgeon
Sometimes what we think is a disappointment, is really God getting us in position to go to a new level.
- Joel Osteen
Men's best successes come after their disappointments.
- Henry Ward Beecher
It hurt me, and pained my very heart, that any body should show me any respect. Alas! methought, how sadly they are deceived in me! how miserably would they be disappointed, if they knew my inside! Oh my heart!
- David Brainerd
There is many a thing which the world calls disappointment; but there is no such thing in the dictionary of faith. What to others are disappointments are to believers intimations of the will of God.
- John Newton
It seems to me that we often, almost sulkily, reject the good that God offers us because, at that moment, we expected some other good.
- CS Lewis
Most of us have hoped and prayed for something to happen a certain way, but it didn't. And when this happened, we had a choice to make: to react with offense toward God or to trust Him anyway.
- Joyce Meyer
God has committed himself, ever since creation, to working through his creatures--in particular, through his image-bearing human beings--but they have all let Him down.
- NT Wright
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!
- James MacDonald
God appoints people who do disappoint - to point to a God who never disappoints.
- Ann Voskamp
I used to pray that God would make me a great athlete, and He never did.
- Lou Holtz
We all wanted what we wanted, and when the Lord fulfilled HIS purpose rather than ours, we struck out against him. In anger. In disappointment. Yet, it is God's will that prevails.
- Francine Rivers