Quotes about Delay
Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)
— Henri Nouwen
Lord, make me chaste - but not yet.
— St. Augustine
We steal if we touch tomorrow. It is God's.
— Henry Ward Beecher
Do not count your chickens before they are hatched.
— Aesop
All delay is helpful, but it does produce wisdom.
— Publilius Syrus
We are a microwave generation serving a Crock-Pot God.
— Bishop TD Jakes
The best remedy for anger is delay.
— Brigham Young
The greatest loss of time is delay and expectation, which depend upon the future. We let go the present, which we have in our power, and look forward to that which depends upon chance, and so relinquish a certainty for an uncertainty.
— Seneca
Time doesn't wait for anyone, but you always have to wait for time.
— Anonymous
In truth, we have delayed to pass sentence on the person of our lord the king, waiting, if perhaps he may, by God's grace, repent; but we will pass it ere long unless he does repent.
— Thomas Becket
The longer you delay, the more your sin gets strength and rooting. If you cannot bend a twig, how will you be able to bend it when it is a tree?
— Richard Baxter
Will not God grant justice to His elect who cry out to Him day and night? Will He delay to help them? Luke 18:7
— Beth Moore