Quotes about Waiting

God gives us hopes and dreams for certain things to happen in our lives, but He doesn't always allow us to see the exact timing of His plan.

I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.

The door on which we have been knocking all our lives will open at last.

Waiting Hurts. Forgetting Hurts. But not knowing which decision to take is the worst of suffering.

God always gives his best to those who leave the choice with him

The phrase "timing is everything" is never more true than in your walk with God—HIS timing is everything.

A lack of endurance is one of the greatest causes of defeat, especially in prayer. We don't wait well. We're into microwaving; God, on the other hand, is usually into marinating.

In exactly three minutes Mr. Peter Ascham, of the eminent legal firm of Ascham and Pettilow, would have his punctual hand on the door-bell of the flat.

Thou art standing all this while at the door of eternity, and death is waiting to open the door, and put thee in(247).

Whenever it seems that God is not doing anything fresh in your life, focus on the love relationship and stay there until God gives you a new assignment.

Contemplation is waiting patiently for the gaps to be filled in, and it does not insist on quick closure or easy answers. It never rushes to judgment, and in fact avoids making quick judgments because judgments have more to do with egoic, personal control than with a loving search for truth.

Be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing. —T.S. ELIOT, "East Coker" from the Four Quartets