Quotes about Waiting

God can turn any tragedy into a triumph, if only you will wait and watch.

And it is when we are out of options that we are most ready for God's surprises.

Sometimes God takes his time...

Sometimes God takes his time: One hundred twenty years to prepare Noah for the flood, eighty years to prepare Moses for his work. God called young David to be king but returned him to the sheep pasture. He called Paul to be an apostle and then isolated him in Arabia for perhaps three years. Jesus was on the earth for three decades before he built anything more than a kitchen table. How long will God take with you? He may take his time. His history is redeemed not in minutes but in lifetimes.

He turned his back and went through the door into the cool beyond. Momma backed up inside herself for a few minutes. I forgot everything except her face which was almost a new one to me. She leaned over and took the doorknob, and in her everyday soft voice she said, "Sister, go on downstairs. Wait for me. I'll be there directly.

Upon certain subject I am able to hold my tongue and hope that time will right wrongs.

I have waited toes curled, hat rolled heart and genitals in hand on the back porches of forever in the kitchens and fields of rejections on the cold marble steps of America's White Out-House in the drop seats of buses and the open flies of war

When I'm patient, things usually work out for the best in the end.

Then they believed His promises and sang His praise. They soon forgot His works and would not wait for His counsel. Psalm 106:12—13

Here's what I know: if you wait upon the Lord, you will always, without fail get what you're waiting on: the Lord Himself. Beth Moore Twitter Account 07062018

At times we'll be tempted to think, "If Christ is who He says He is, and can do what He says He can do, and I am His beloved, why isn't He coming through for me?

Patience to wait does not come from suffering long for what we lack but from sitting long in what we have.