Quotes about Waiting

Great is the advantage of patience.

Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.

There are not three stages in spiritual life—worship, waiting and work. Some of us go in jumps like spiritual frogs, we jump from worship to waiting, and from waiting to work. God's idea is that the three should go together. They were always together in the life of Our Lord. He was unhasting and unresting. It is a discipline, we cannot get into it all at once.

Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape.

Waiting for Me to work, with your eyes on Me, is evidence that you really do trust Me.

The figure of the passing-away world, 1 Cor. vii. 31. is like an old man's face, full of wrinkles, and foul with weeping: we are waiting when Jesus shall be revealed from heaven, and shall come and wipe the old man's face.

Patience is bitter, but its fruit is sweet.

You have no idea when or how God will answer your prayers, but don't stop praying.

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.

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

When God's leading and directing, you don't have to kick the doors open.

How do we wait? The Bible says very clearly that we are to be still.