Quotes about Timing
Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
— Eugene Peterson
I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it came.
— Adoniram Judson
If your prayers haven't been answered, it doesn't mean they won't be answered. In fact, they may have already been answered, but just not in the way you wanted or expected them to be.
— Stormie Omartian
Our prayer must be, "Father, I'm waiting for You because I know You are good in what You do and in when you do it.
— James MacDonald
Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another and by and by they meet.
— Adoniram Judson
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
— Mark Twain
To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.
— Elisabeth Elliot
God has promised to supply our needs. What we don't have now we don't need now.
— Elisabeth Elliot
How long Lord must I wait? Nevermind child, trust me.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Our major problems of acceptance and trust usually have to do with timing, because God's timetable is always different from ours. He wants me to wait in order to believe, in order to learn to put my faith in His timing.
— Elisabeth Elliot
God's ways and His will come in His own perfect time.
— Elizabeth George
God's ways and His will come in His own perfect time.
— Elizabeth George