Quotes about Expectation

Although nature has proven season in and season out that if the thing that is planted bears at all, it will yield more of itself, there are those who seem certain that if they plant tomato seeds, at harvest time they can reap onions.

We had expected three cots in our room, but found one large lumpy bed, a very worn carpet and a single overhead light. "You mean this is what these people got out of their revolution?" Martha daintily picked her way around the room. "Someone should tell them that they're about due for another." She wrinkled her pretty face in distaste. Ethel

Who would answer all the questions, fulfill all the requests? Would anyone? Could anyone? History had taught the citizens of Watts to hope for the best and expect nothing, but be prepared for the worst.

She would have been more surprised than I had she taken me in her arms and wept at losing me. Her world was bordered on all sides with work, duty, religion and her place. I don't think she ever knew that a deep-brooding love hung over everything she touched.

It is sunrise, with Hope its arrogant rider.

Everything comes at its appointed moment. —Joseph R. Sizoo

If we want to change what happens, we change what we believe and expect.

When we don't get close to people, at least we know what to expect: nothing.

If a nation expects to be ignorant and free . . . it expects what never was and never will be.

We're getting by but getting by, was never our destiny. We were meant to be profoundly effective. Why have we accepted average? Are the few effects most of us see and experience all Christianity has to offer? Is this it? All we can expect? If so, someone out there needs to feel sorry for us.

Here's what I know: if you wait upon the Lord, you will always, without fail get what you're waiting on: the Lord Himself. Beth Moore Twitter Account 07062018

Do you believe only because I told you I saw you under the fig tree? You will see greater things than this. John 1:50