Quotes about Anticipation

The challenge of the unknown future is so much more exciting than the stories of the accomplished past.

Dear past, I survived you. Dear present, I'm ready for you. Dear future, I'm coming for you.

Dread, which is closely related to fear, steals the ability to enjoy ordinary life and makes people anxious about the future. It keeps them from looking forward to the next day, the next month, or the next decade.

Even before I met you I was far from indifferent to you.

She was not herself--she was not anything. She was something that is going to be--soon--soon--very soon. But as yet, she was only imminent.

Nobody knocks here, and the unexpected sounds ominous.

The modern mind longs for the future as the medieval mind longed for Heaven. The great aim of modern life has been to improve the future—or even just to reach the future, assuming that the future will inevitably be "better.

On Sunday morning, I'm not nervous... I can't wait to tell what God wants me to say.

Our willingness to wait reveals the value we place on the object we're waiting for.

Literature always anticipates life. It does not copy it, but molds it to its purpose.

To live strongly and creatively in the kingdom of the heavens, we need to have firmly fixed in our minds what our future is to be like. We want to live fully in the kingdom now, and for that purpose our future must make sense to us. It must be something we can now plan or make decisions in terms of, with clarity and joyful anticipation. In this way our future can be incorporated into our life now and our life now can be incorporated into our future.

Don't worry, better days are coming. They are called Friday, Saturday and Sunday.