Quotes about Delay

Patience is a bitter plant that produces sweet fruit.

Just because something is good doesn't mean we should pursue it right now. We have to remember that the right thing at the wrong time is the wrong thing.

Since their dough had no leaven, the people baked what they had brought out of Egypt into unleavened loaves. For when they had been driven out of Egypt, they could not delay and had not prepared any provisions for themselves.

Rejection—It may be a delay. It may be a distraction. It may even be a devastation for a season but it is not your final destination.

Short cuts make for long delays.

Never put off till tomorrow what you can do the day after tomorrow just as well.

How soon 'not now' becomes 'never'!

Whenever we use our time to do things that neither release our potential nor help us progress toward the accomplishment of our purpose, we forfeit or delay the opportunity to reach the excellency and completion God intended for our lives.

Law of Diminishing Intent, which says, "The longer you wait to do something you should do now, the greater the odds that you will never actually do it.

Most of us need time to work through pain and loss. We can find all manner of reasons for postponing forgiveness. One of these reasons is waiting for the wrongdoers to repent before we forgive them. Yet such a delay causes us to forfeit the peace and happiness that could be ours.

Isn't it funny how something that will later be a blessing can be a curse if you get it too soon.

O Lord, help me to be pure, but not yet.