Quotes about Anticipation

Of course it was very interesting to see the old chest unpacked, said the Story Girl as she stirred the contents of a saucepan vigorously. But now that it is over I believe I am sorry that it is opened. It isn't mysterious any longer. We know all about it now, and we can never imagine what things are in it any more.

For it is sure to come; and if or not it's now not just as we have pictured it, it will likely be infinitely sweeter.

And life (or God) seems to reply, "Get ready! The other shoe is going to drop. When? I want to surprise you.

I knew when I met you an adventure was going to happen.

It is thrifty to prepare today for wants of tomorrow.

The Advent season is a season of waiting, but our whole life is an Advent season, that is, a season of waiting for the last Advent, for the time when there will be a new heaven and a new earth.

Life in a prison cell may well be compared to Advent; one waits, hopes, and does this, that, or the other - things that are really of no consequence — the door is shut, and can be opened only from the outside.

Christ is knocking. It's still not Christmas, but it's also still not the great last Advent, the last coming of Christ.

I flapped open the lid of my cardboard guitar case and whipped out my old Martin. Mr. Killen seemed a little taken aback. I think he wasn't sure whether I was going to play the guitar or brain him with it. He breathed a sigh of relief when I went into a song. Bill hustled his guitar out as fast as he could and joined in. I sang loud and strong with the security that comes with knowing that one way or another, it'll be over soon.

Contentment is the equilibrium between the enjoyment of life now and the anticipation of what is to come.

I am not interested in the past. I am interested in the future, for that is where I expect to spend the rest of my life.

I can look at the future with anticipation. And it's comforting to know that someday, as Christians, we'll be able to look back and have a little more clarity on why certain things in life happened.