Quotes about Waiting
Death - Death can be faced, dealt with, adjusted to, outlived. It's the not knowing that destroys interminably... This being suspended in suspense; waiting - weightless, How does one face the faceless, adjust to nothing? Waiting implies something to wait for. Is there? There is One. One who knows... I rest my soul on that.
— Ruth Bell Graham
God is love, they once said, but we reversed that, and love, like heaven, was always just around the corner. The more difficult it was to love the particular man beside us, the more we believed in Love, abstract and total. We were waiting, always, for the incarnation. That word, made flesh.
— Margaret Atwood
Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.
— John Calvin
No matter how long it's been, no matter how impossible it looks, if you'll stay in faith, your time is coming.
— Joel Osteen
Waiting time is not wasting time. Waiting patiently in expectation is the foundation of the spiritual life.
— Henri Nouwen
To talk with God, no breath is lost. Talk on! To walk with God, no strength is lost. Walk on! To wait on God, no time is lost. Wait on!
— E Stanley Jones
It is dangerous to be so busy that you have no time to wait on God.
— AW Tozer
You can save a lot of time waiting on God.
— Adrian Rogers
God often gives in one brief moment that which He has for a long time denied.
— Thomas a Kempis
Answers to prayer have to be on God's schedule, not ours. He hears us pray, and He answers according to His will in His own time.
— David Jeremiah
Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer... He may sometimes keep us long waiting...but He will never send us empty away.
— JC Ryle
Jews and Christians wait, the whole world waits,and there are many who wait for death
— Anne Frank