"Expectant waiting is the foundation of the spiritual…" — Simone Weil

More Expectant Quotes

This quote is filed under Expectant Quotes, one of 33 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Science corrects the old creeds, sweeps away, with every new perception, our infantile catechisms, and necessitates a faith commensurate with… — Ralph Waldo Emerson
• I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing. — Annie Dillard
• Many times, a child's struggle against hunger begins before he or she is born because the mother is undernourished. Making… — Hector Elizondo
• Certainly something had happened to me during the night. Or after months of tension I had arrived at the edge… — Elena Ferrante
• The poet’s life is just so much crenellated waste, nights and days whipping swiftly or laboriously past the cinematic window.… — Eileen Myles
• Prayer is the Word of God which comes to you when you are silent enough, still enough and expectant to… — Joel S. Goldsmith
• The stream of plenty always flows towards the open expectant mind — Bob Proctor
• The image of your goal properly planted and constantly nourished with positive, expectant thought-energy will cause your goal to develop… — Bob Proctor
• Innocence is not pure so much as pleased, Always expectant, bright-eyed, self-enclosed — May Sarton
• When ... we realize the possibilities of deep sea life still unknown to us, every haul of the dredge should… — William Beebe
• We recall the joy and excitement of a nation that had found itself, the collective relief that we had stepped… — Nelson Mandela
• Nobody had ever instructed him that a slave-ship, with a procession of expectant sharks in its wake, is a missionary… — Harriet Beecher Stowe

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