Quotes about Expectation

For unto whomsoever much is given, of him shall be much required: and to whom men have committed much, of him they will ask the more.

You're right, Mr. Thatcher. I did lose a million dollars last year. I expect to lose a million dollars this year. I expect to lose a million dollars next year. You know, Mr. Thatcher, at the rate of a million dollars a year, I'll have to close this place in sixty years.

I thought he was a young man of promise; but it appears he was a young man of promises.

Man who want pretty nurse, must be patient.

Can there any good thing come out of Nazareth?

Hope deferred maketh the heart sick: but when the desire cometh, it is a tree of life.

Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get, it's what you are expected to give -- which is everything.

Every day that goes by puts us closer to the day when Christ will return.

I've done everything for the wrong reasons. All the good works people credit to me are nothing because I did them expecting God to repay me. I thought if I worked hard enough, God would have to give me what I wanted. The truth is I've never served the Lord at all. I was always serving myself.

The child chattered like a little magpie, and Angel nodded and listened. Glancing up, Angel encountered Michael's gaze. He wants children, she thought, and the thought hit her solid in the pit of her stomach. What if he knew she couldn't have them? Would his love for her die then? She couldn't hold his gaze.

But if we hope for what we do not have, we wait for it patiently. ROMANS 8 : 25

Treat a person as he is, and he will remain as he is. Treat a person as if he were where he could be and should be, and he will become what he could be and should be.