Quotes about Expectation

Happy are they who are found wanting.

I find my Lord Jesus cometh not in that precise way that I lay wait for him; he hath a gate [road] of his own.

We love to carry heaven to heaven with us, and would have two summers in one year, and no less than two heavens; but this will not be for us: one, and such an one, may suffice us well enough. The Man Christ got but one only, and shall we have two?

We know the redemption must come. The time and the manner of its coming we know not: It may come in peace, or it may come in blood; but whether in peace or in blood, LET IT COME.

The present time is seldom able to fill desire or imagination with immediate enjoyment, and we are forced to supply its deficiencies by recollection or anticipation.

I cast my bread on the waters long ago. Now it's time for you to send it back to me - toasted and buttered on both sides.

Ninety percent of the time things turn out worse than you thought they would. The other ten percent of the time you had no right to expect that much.

It is sometimes fortunate, that the means which are taken to produce certain effects upon the mind have a tendency directly opposite to what is expected.

a miracles is a reasonable thing to ask for.

What happens if you walk into a church and try to find out what a man looks like?

Confidence is characteristic of a person of hope

Now, how did you know that I was going to propose? I asked in genuine wonder. Don't women always know? Do you suppose any woman in the world was ever taken unawares?