Quotes about Waiting

The irony of their impatience is that only by learning to wait, and by a willingness to accept the bad with the good, do we usually attain those things that are truly worthwhile.

Patience is important not only in waiting for the right time to start a relationship, but also in allowing it to unfold at a healthy pace. Impatience rushes everything. It urges us to skip the time and attention a healthy friendship requires and to jump straight into emotional and physical intimacy.

When we define our happiness by some point in the future, it will never arrive. We'll keep waiting until tomorrow. If we allow impatience to govern us, we will miss the gift of the moment. We'll arrive at that point in time we expected to provide fulfillment and find it lacking.

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

With a twinkle in his eyes, my friend says that his favorite prayer is, "Lord, give me patience—and give it to me right now!

If the United Nations could bring lasting peace, man could say to God, "We do not need You anymore. We have brought peace on earth and have organized humanity in righteousness." All of these schemes are patchwork remedies that a sick and dying world must use while waiting for the Great Physician.

We're not going to have peace—permanent peace—until the Prince of Peace comes. And He is coming.

In some ways, Christians are homeless. Our true home is waiting for us, prepared by the Lord Jesus Christ.

At its deepest level, prayer is fellowship with God: enjoying His company, waiting upon His will, thanking Him for His mercies... listening in the silence for what He has to say to us.

Our natural desire is to be doing something; but there are times in our lives when it is wiser to wait and just be still.

So the power of prayer is found, not in convincing God of my agenda, but in waiting upon Him to hear His agenda.

Three years? That's a thousand tomorrows, ma'am.