Quotes about Anticipation

Dear Lord, I want to wait in calm and patient expectation today. Please take my exhaustion and turn it into expectation; take my feelings of hopelessness and give me real hope. I want to stop resisting Your truths and start applying them. I will do all that I can today, and I will wait with anticipation for all that You will do through me. In Jesus' name. Amen.

Usually, the most disappointing realities come from the most realistic expectations. An unmet longing from a realistic expectation is such a searing pain within a human heart.

I always making sure I was present when anything was going on. I feared that if I missed any opportunity, the magic would come while I was not there and I would miss it forever.

For the followers of Jesus, the real finish line is either the return of Jesus or our homecoming to him.

It would have marked a want of foresight in the convention, which our own experience would have rendered inexcusable.

I define anxiety as experiencing failure in advance.

Faith is inseparable from expectations. Where there is real faith, there is always expectation.

True faith is never found alone; it is accompanied by expectation.

Save a boyfriend for a rainy day - and another, in case it doesn't rain.

To morrow to fresh Woods, and Pastures new.

The whole difference between construction and creation is exactly this: that a thing constructed can only be loved after it is constructed; but a thing created is loved before it exists, as the mother can love the unborn child.

I know it's crazy, but I actually prefer to prepare for disaster and worst-case scenarios, rather than panic once they do occur.