Quotes about Anticipation

It was a kiss with a future in it: like a ring slipped upon her soul. And now, in the dreadful pause that followed--while Strefford fidgeted with his cigarette-case and rattled the spoon in his cup--Susy remembered what she had seen through the circle of Nick's kiss: that blue illimitable distance which was at once the landscape at their feet and the future in their souls.

Your future includes manna. It will come. There is no sense devising future scenarios now because God will do more than you anticipate.

Some hopeless people who anticipate only death cite Scripture that says "I desire to depart and be with Christ" (Phil. 1:23). But Christ is not what hopeless people really want. The God-talk is misleading. The goal of hopelessness is to end the suffering, and if God happens to be there when it happens, fine. But God's presence is not essential.

If the potential presence/arrival of another person can reveal the ungodliness in our behavior, how much more the coming of Christ himself?

We need the sweet pain of anticipation to tell us we are really alive.

Alert expectancy. What an exciting way to look at things! Our faith in Christ gives us the opportunity to live in a state of alert expectancy; patiently waiting for what God will do next. People who choose this path will one day look back in amazement at what God did.

If you realize that there is a further journey, you might do the warm-up act quite differently, which would better prepare you for what follows.

Just the knowledge that a good book is waiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.

None of us knows what the next change is going to be, what unexpected opportunity is just around the corner, waiting a few months or a few years to change all the tenor of our lives.

In our worship we find for the most part what we expect to find.

All things come to him who waits -- provided he knows what he is waiting for.

If you don't put anything in place, do not expect miraculous results to appear.