Come to the Word with a spirit of longing with devotion and humble expectation. Be determined to know God.
With 'Boxer,' we made the kind of music we wanted to make and didn't really worry about what the expectation was.
To pray without expectation is to misunderstand the whole concept of prayer and relationship with God.
Being out in the street is not an expectation of privacy. Anyone can look at you, can see you, can watch what you're doing.
My parents are wonderful, practical, sensible people, and the expectation was that I would study something academic.
Nothing takes the heart out of a man more than the expectation of failure.
Death, after all, is the common expectation from birth. Neither heroes nor cowards can escape it.
Ever since I can remember, over-expectation and pressure have been my worst enemies.
Third books are a scary thing. They come with the weight of so much expectation, and I've been keenly aware of that.
I don't see coach job stressful, I really don't. Of course, there is pressure and expectation, but I wouldn't necessarily equate that with stress.
I hated waiting. If I had one particular complaint, it was that my life seemed composed entirely of expectation.
Love is the easiest thing there is. It's the layers of doubt, fear, and expectation that make it complicated.
When you expect something, there's also a certain fear about whether or not that expectation will be fulfilled.
There is an expectation with a superhero film that there is spectacle and action but there also has to be heart. Striking that balance is really important.
It is not easy to deliver a good film and take the expectation of the audience one level higher every time.
Writing an acceptance speech gives you the expectation of winning, and you are therefore devastated or hurt if you didn't win.
And if God has given you a lot of ability, I believe you should be held to a higher level of expectation.
I've probably exceeded every expectation I had for myself, going into my rookie year of what my NFL career would be.
Sometimes the expectation of being inspired in one specific way may close you off to the actual inspiration.
You never want to plateau out. Getting better every day is my expectation.
You who are in power have only the means that money produces — we who are in expectation, have those which devotion prompts.
The expectation of gradual policy normalization should reduce the likelihood of outsized movements in interest rates.
The joy that comes past hope and beyond expectation is like no other pleasure in extent.
I don't feel any more pressure or expectation because I'm captain. I want to win.
All the keys to joy can be reduced to these two. Laugh but at no one's expense and love but without expectation.
When Britain and the U.S. invaded Iraq, it was with the reasonable expectation that it was going to increase the threat of terror, as it has.
Representing the Selecao is a very great expectation, being able to play is even greater.
The expectation level is high at the University of Alabama and it should be. What's wrong with people expecting excellence?
The very expectation that an actor loves to experiment becomes a shackle that is difficult to snap out of.
The difference between me and American-born actors is that I came here with the expectation of not being treated fairly.
When life hands us a beutiful bouquet of flowers we stare at it in cautious expectation of a bee.
All of Christian existence ... stands within an expectation. Its fulfillment may be sure, but its timing is unknown.
There's a lot of expectation after you do something that seems to have been well received. It's kind of unfair.
I learnt early to have little expectation so I protected myself from ever feeling greatly disappointed.
We fight to keep something alive rather than in the expectation that anything will triumph.
If you accept full responsibility for yourself, you will be released forever from expectation, resentment, blame and guilt.
Please reduce the expectation in your tone when asking me how my day is going.
A lot of people have the expectation that politicians shouldn't just disappear into the woodwork even if they didn't win the election.
I had a very realistic expectation of the level of success that it was possible to attain writing romance novels.
Grace is the most dangerous, expectation-wre cking, smile-creating, counterintuitiv e reality there is.
Face each day with the expectation of achieving good, rather than the dread of falling short.
Talent is its own expectation, Jim: you either live up to it or it waves a hankie, receding forever.
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.
The grateful mind continually expects good things, and expectation becomes faith.
I love being from the States and having that pride. But at the same time, there is a lot of expectation.
If one is going to plagiarize, it pays to be in politics, where the expectation for remorse and the likelihood of punishment are minimal.
And since we are people of expectation, we are so convinced that another world is coming that we start living as if it were already here.
Her little butterfly soul fluttered incessantly between memory and dubious expectation.
When you're young, you try to meet that expectation that people have of you. It can be very stressful. But with time it's become less of problem.
Any reasonable ruler would have the expectation and the demand the other way round.
A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups.
My scholarly expectation is then that I may succeed in becoming clever in philosophy in spite of my stupidity.
There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
We cannot possibly take them all into this country [asylum seekers] - it is a completely unrealistic expectation.
I found myself trying to be all things to all people. I felt a tremendous sense of responsibility and the pressure of expectation.
An ethical act is one which does not harm others' experience or expectation of happiness.
The cultural expectation should be if there's infidelity, the marriage is more important than fidelity.
In science novelty emerges only with difficulty, manifested by resistance, against a background provided by expectation.
One of the hallmarks of an evolved person is the ability to tell the truth with no fear of punishment or expectation of reward
I am giddy, expectation whirls me round.
The imaginary relish is so sweet
That it enchants my sense.
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