Quotes about Timing
We can save ourselves a lot of distress and accusation by knowing when, where, to whom, and how to talk about spiritually mature things.
— Fr. Richard Rohr
God is never in a hurry, but he is always on time.
— Rick Warren
I think that Harold MacMillan is a very intelligent man, who, as so often happens in politics, achieved supreme power too late.
— Malcolm Muggeridge
Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
— Eugene Peterson
I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it came.
— Adoniram Judson
If your prayers haven't been answered, it doesn't mean they won't be answered. In fact, they may have already been answered, but just not in the way you wanted or expected them to be.
— Stormie Omartian
Our prayer must be, "Father, I'm waiting for You because I know You are good in what You do and in when you do it.
— James MacDonald
Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another and by and by they meet.
— Adoniram Judson
The right word may be effective, but no word was ever as effective as a rightly timed pause.
— Mark Twain
To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.
— Elisabeth Elliot
God has promised to supply our needs. What we don't have now we don't need now.
— Elisabeth Elliot
How long Lord must I wait? Nevermind child, trust me.
— Elisabeth Elliot