Quotes about Expectation

People care a lot that the USA is well run, and people globally expect us to do things in upgrading science and more.

We ought to be living as if Jesus died yesterday, rose this morning, and is coming back this afternoon.

Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pain

You ridiculed the idea of my ever being able to help you, not expecting to receive from me any repayment of your favor; now you know that it is possible for even a Mouse to confer benefits on a Lion.

The Woman and Her Hen A WOMAN possessed a Hen that gave her an egg every day. She often pondered how she might obtain two eggs daily instead of one, and at last, to gain her purpose, determined to give the Hen a double allowance of barley. From that day the Hen became fat and sleek, and never once laid another egg.

Expect no reward when you serve the wicked, and be thankful if you escape injury for your pains.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

Expecting to find the answer, we find only the duplicate of our own problem.

Waiting is an art that our impatient age has forgotten. It wants to break open the ripe fruit when it has hardly finished planting the shoot. But all too often the greedy eyes are only deceived; the fruit that seemed so precious is still green on the inside, and disrespected hands ungratefully toss aside what has so disappointed them.

A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes - and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent

Advent creates people, new people.

God hates this wishful dreaming because it makes the dreamer proud and pretentious. Those who dream of this idealized community demand that it be fulfilled by God, by others, and by themselves. They enter the community of Christians with their demands, set up their own law, and judge one another and even God accordingly.