Quotes about Expectation

Sadly, prayer for many of us has been shrunk to an agenda that is little bigger than asking God for stuff.

Hope for the believer is not a dream of what could be, but a confident expectation of a guaranteed result that shapes his life.

Live in hope because paradise is surely coming, and stop asking this fallen world to be the paradise it will never be.

hope is nothing less than a confident expectation of a guaranteed result.

Life is all about what we look to to fill us.

When someone leaves, it's because someone else is about to arrive.

Expectancy is the seed that helps the impossible to be made possible.

When your eyes are on prosperity, they are moved away from the parousia, a Greek word for the Lord's coming

So I'm waiting for God, and God is waiting for me to see if I am really waiting for him, and not just wanting things from him.

Readers who come to the Bible expecting something more like an accurate textbook, a more-or-less objective recalling of the past—because, surely, God wouldn't have it any other way—are in for an uncomfortable read. But if they take seriously the words in front of them, they will quickly find that the Bible doesn't deliver on that expectation. Not remotely.

The point is that Proverbs 26:4—5 doesn't tell me what to do. It wasn't designed to. It models something better: the permission to think it through, figure it out, and learn from experience for next time. In fact, more than just giving us permission, the contradiction sets up our expectation that we will have to think it through.

America does not know the difference between money and sex. It treats sex like money because it treats sex as a medium of exchange, and it treats money like sex because it expects its money to get pregnant and reproduce.