Quotes about Expectation
Although we might settle for less, Heavenly Father won't, for he sees us as the glorious beings we are capable of becoming.
- Joseph Wirthlin
The biggest human temptation is to settle for too little.
- Thomas Merton
True simplicity implies love and trust—it does not expect to be derided and rejected, any more than it expects to be admired and praised.
- Thomas Merton
But if we love God for something less than Himself, we cherish a desire that can fail us. We run the risk of hating Him if we do not get what we hope for.
- Thomas Merton
He is heard only when we hope to hear Him, and if, thinking our hope to be fulfilled, we cease to speak, His silence ceases to be vivid and becomes dead, even though we recharge it with the echo of our own emotional noise.
- Thomas Merton
One reason why we are less fervent than we ought to be is that we cripple our own spirit by taking ourselves too seriously. We expect too much from ourselves when we ought to expect everything from God on Whom we utterly depend.
- Thomas Merton
Think how your life would be changed if you passionately longed for and lived every day as if this would be the moment Jesus would return!
- Kathie Lee Gifford
A lifetime of happiness? No man could bear it: it would be hell on earth.
- George Bernard Shaw
All things come to him who waits- provided he knows what he is waiting for.
- Woodrow Wilson
There is one thing which gives radiance to everything. It is the idea of something around the corner.
- GK Chesterton
What's great about cable is that the ceiling of expectation is lowered because fewer people have to tune in for it to be a success. You don't need 23 million people a week like you do in broadcast.
- Holly Hunter
I've always been frightened of turning thirty.
- Emily Atack