Quotes about Waiting

How good is known only by those who prove it in waiting on Him. How good none can fully tell but those who have proved Him to the utmost. My soul, wait thou only upon God!

Let not the interest of religious thoughts and exercises deceive you; they very often take the place of waiting upon God.

All the exercises of the spiritual life, our reading and praying, our willing and doing, have their very great value. But they can go no farther than this, that they point the way and prepare us in humility to look to and to depend alone upon God Himself, and in patience to await His good time and mercy. The waiting is to teach us our absolute dependence upon God's might working, and to make us in perfect patience place ourselves at His disposal.

God unceasingly gives and works; His child unceasingly waits and receives — this is the blessed life.

That is the secret. As the rising sun holds the promise of light for the rest of the day, so your quiet time spent waiting on God will be your promise of His presence and power throughout your day.

While grief is fresh, every attempt to divert only irritates. You must wait till it be digested, and then amusement will dissipate the remains of it.

When God gives you a vision and darkness follows, wait. God will bring the vision He has given you to reality in your life if you will wait on His timing. Never try to help God fulfill His word

I never know tomorrow what I might be doing. I just ask God to lead me and show me and direct me and help me and support me in it. So I just wait to hear the call.

Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.

Hope is patience with the lamp lit.

The word advent means "expectation." What advent can do for us is create a sense of hope.

It is atheism to pray and not wait on hope.