Quotes about Waiting

Bonum est praestolari cum silentio salutare Dei. ("It is good to wait in silence for the salvation of God.")

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.

Time and tides wait for none

It has been my observation in life that, if one will only exercise the patience to wait, his wants are likely to be filled.

Two-thirds of those evacuated at that time had been born in the United States and were American citizens. Standing in long lines, the Japanese had to wait for hours in front of the desks of the officials, who took down their names and handed out labels for them to wear around their necks with their identity number, the same as for their luggage.

Occasions for appealing to public compassion are never wanting in a nation eternally rocked by catastrophes that shake the foundations of life, floods that sweep away entire towns, gigantic waves that deposit ships in the center of a plaza. We are created in the idea that life is precarious, and we are always waiting for the next calamity to happen.

God hasn't forgotten you. There's a plan. you just don't know it yet. But when you're ready to get back into the game, He'll tell you.

God always answers. It's just a matter of how.

We don't like waiting, but that's when God does some of His best work on our souls.

Pray and wait. That's what she had done in the past few weeks. And in the waiting came the strengthening of the muscles of faith. It was a whole-faith workout to wait and allow God to do what He wanted to do. As Clara said, it was time to just get out of His way.

Exactly the way old folks said: not when you call Him; not when you want Him; only when you need Him and right on time.

Don't leave before the miracle happens!