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Quotes about Timing

When you are young, do not get involved in steady dating. When you reach an age where you think of marriage, then is the time to become so involved.
— Gordon Hinckley
Moving is both liberating and debilitating. Undertaken too late, it is a very stressful process, one that sometimes seems to catapult people into frail old age, and undertaken too soon, it may preempt other possibilities.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
The timing of death, like the ending of a story, gives a changed meaning to what proceeds it.
— Mary Catherine Bateson
But you don't choose the time. The time chooses you. Either you seize what may turn out to be the only chance you have, or you decide you're willing to live with the knowledge that the chance has passed you by.
— Barack Obama
My experience has been that there are times to teach and times not to teach. When relationships are strained and the air charged with emotion, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection.
— Stephen Covey
There are times to teach and times not to teach. When relationships are strained and the air charged with emotion, an attempt to teach is often perceived as a form of judgment and rejection. But to take the child alone, quietly, when the relationship is good and to discuss the teaching or the value seems to have much greater impact.
— Stephen Covey
My experience has been that there are times to teach and times not to teach.
— Stephen Covey
Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by
— Alice Hoffman
Joni discovered the best way to put the halter on her horse without being animal resisting and fleeing was to turn her back until he nuzzled up to her. At that point, she could slip the halter on. Just so, she surmises, sometimes God waits for us to turn our backs on what we desire most and to trust Him.
— Joni Eareckson Tada
"Catacombs Presbyterian Church": "When is this going to happen? How long do we have to wait? When does construction begin? Jesus's response was 'It is not for you to know the times or periods that the Father has set by his own authority.' In other words, it's none of your business. Your question is irrelevant. That kind of information is of no use to you. It would probably confuse you, might discourage you, and would certainly distract you.
— Eugene Peterson
Learn to trust His timing. Don't get in a hurry; don't grow impatient; don't try to force doors open. Don't try to make things happen in your own strength. Let God do it His way.
— Joel Osteen
Keep honoring God with your life, stay in peace, trust His timing and God will open doors that no man can shut.
— Joel Osteen