Quotes about Expectation

Be blessed. And just as you are transforming your own life, may you transform the lives of those around you. When they ask, do not forget to give. When they knock at your door, be sure to open it. When they lose something and come to you, do whatever you can to help them find what they have lost. First, though, ask; knock at the door and find what is missing in your life. A hunter always knows what to expect - eat or be eaten.

And when I think about it, I guess it is true that people always arrive at the right moment at the place where someone awaits them.

it is one thing to get used to something, another to be satisfied.

When we plant a rose seed in the earth, we notice it is small, but we do not criticize it as "rootless and stemless." We treat it as a seed, giving it the water and nourishment required of a seed.

We are used to thinking that what we give is the same as what we receive, but people who love, expecting to be loved in return, are wasting their time. Love is an act of faith, not an exchange.

Experience has taught me that people only give values to things if they have, at some point, been uncertain as to whether or not they will get it

Although we cannot control God's time, it is part of the human condition to want to receive the things we are waiting as quickly as possible.

You've discovered a wellspring, simply allow it to flow and it will fill your world. Don't try to keep a safe distance so as to see what happens. Don't wait to be certain before you take a step. What you give, you will receive, although it might sometimes come from the place you least expect. (p229)

I think, knowing full well that we always try to interpret things in accordance with what we want ant as they are.

Holding onto anger is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to die.

Kings live in Palaces, and Pigs in sties, And youth in Expectation. Youth is wise.

Real Christians revel in desperate ventures for Christ, expecting from God great things and attempting the same with exhilaration.