Quotes about Expectation

We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.

Accuse not nature, she hath done her part; Do thou but thine.

I began to understand the security of the covenant of grace, and to expect to be preserved, not by my own power and holiness, but by the mighty power and promise of God, through faith in an unchangeable Savior.

Faithfulness is only half the equation. God expects fruitfulness as well.

I have the profound sense that many people who complain of not being able to rejoice in God treat the knowledge of God as something that ought to be easy to get. They are passive. They expect spiritual things to happen to them from out of nowhere.

We need to have far less confidence in what man can do and far more confidence in what God can do for every believing soul. He longs to have you reach after Him by faith. He longs to have you expect great things from Him. He longs to give you understanding in temporal as well as in spiritual matters. He can sharpen the intellect. He can give tact and skill. Put your talents into the work, ask God for wisdom, and it will be given you.

If I'm not nervous, I'm nervous. You never know how people are going to receive the work.

People recognize something's going to happen, and they'd better get ready.

Most people think that Heaven is a choir, and all you will do is sing.

One believes others will do what he will do to himself.

The future will be better tomorrow

Much, much stress results from your wanting to make things happen before their times have come.