Quotes about Waiting

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

Wait for the LORD; be strong and take heart and wait for the LORD" (Psalm 27:14)?

I would seriously rather be in a long line at the DMV than eat with people I don't know.

Lonely men seek companionship. Lonely women sit at home and wait. They never meet.

For he who can wait, everything comes in time.

And it took me about 11 years to get a record deal, and I just had to work around and come to terms with the fact that what I was doing was going to be different, and I just had to wait until somebody was ready to jump on the bandwagon.

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.

I'm not a fast writer at all. I come empty and wait upon the Lord. So it really is all a waiting process, a patient process.

Investors don't like being in a world where everything is held up by and waiting for an approval from a very small number of people.

When we make progress quickly, it feeds our emotions. Then, when there's a period of waiting or we hit a plateau, we find out how committed we really are and whether we're going to see things through to the finish or quit.

Let us ask God to give us that glorious glimpse of the coming of our Lord. He is the Bridegroom coming for the Bride, and He will come when the Bride is ready for Him. If marriage is as grand as the Bible intended it to be, then it is worth it to wait until you are ready for that right moment . . . for the right one.

We must meditate on what God has done in our life instead of what we are still waiting on Him to do.