Quotes about Waiting

When we wait on the Lord, we invite Him to root out the dissonance in a divided heart and bring to us the integrity of full surrender to His will. In that we experience His strength.

It will come back to you," cried the Rector, feverishly. "It will come back. Half an hour with the handbells——

I remember talking to comedian Jimmy Pardo about his experience waiting to hear about his own pilot, and we both agreed on one thing: When you can't control your showbiz fate, you can at least control the amount of ice cream you're eating. And if you're like us, it was a lot.

It was much easier to obey God when he said, "Fight!" or "Argue!" or "Sacrifice yourself!" But when he said, "Wait!"—that made things hard. Ari was good at that sort of thing. He

Any man can call time out, but no man can say how long the time out will be.

It was as though I had one map inside my head and it led to the man who was waiting for me. Someone who was alone - maybe even more alone - than I was.

One should go to sleep as homesick passengers do, saying, "Perhaps in the morning we shall see the shore.

Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.

Estragon: I can't go on like this. Vladimir: That's what you think.

Patience! patience! You are always in a hurry, but God is not.

The opposite of patience is not impatience, but unbelief.

Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.