A Quote by Bernard of Clairvaux
Expect much of God, and he will do much for you.
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How can you expect God to speak in that gentle and inward voice which melts the soul, when you are making so much noise with your rapid reflections? Be silent and God will speak again.
In millions of encounters each year between the police and the public, it may be too much to expect that every officer will always get it right. But it is not too much to expect that we can put the right safeguards in place to hold officers accountable when they get it wrong.
We should always pray with as much earnestness as those who expect everything from God; we should always act with as much energy as those who expect everything from themselves.
You will know as much of God, and only as much of God, as you are willing to put into practice.
It's too much to expect in an academic setting that we should all agree, but it is not too much to expect discipline and unvarying civility.
The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it's going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.
At the close of life the question will be not how much have you got, but how much have you given; not how much have you won, but how much have you done; not how much have you saved, but how much have you sacrificed; how much have you loved and served, not how much were you honored.
People expect too much. People who expect heaven always fall into hell - that is the law. Expect heaven and hell is certain. Don't expect heaven and there will never be any hell.
Every team I'm on, I expect to win. I expect to push my teammates as much as I can, and I expect them to do the same with me.
People may expect too much of journalism. Not only do they expect it to be entertaining, they expect it to be true.
One of the most wonderful things about knowing God is that there’s always so much more to know, so much more to discover. Just when we least expect it, He intrudes into our neat and tidy notions about who He is and how He works.
God loves importunate prayer so much that He will not give us much blessing without it.
I'm a failure as a woman. My men expect so much of me, because of the image they've made of me and that I've made of myself, as a sex symbol. Men expect so much, and I can't live up to it.
I don't much care where I am anymore, nor expect very much from places.
A general problem with much of Western theology in my view is that the god portrayed is too small. It is a god of a tiny world and not a god of a galaxy much less of a universe.
There is an illusion that has much to do with... most of our unhappiness.... We expect too much.
