Quotes about Waiting
God won't let you down. He will bring justice; He will pay you back for what you have lost or missed out on. While you wait, be thankful and know that God's timing in your life will be perfect.
- Joyce Meyer
God will give us the grace to deal with tomorrow, but He won't give it to us until tomorrow gets here.
- Joyce Meyer
Patience is not the ability to wait, but the ability to keep a good attitude while waiting.
- Joyce Meyer
Trust in Him Next time the wind blows and the waves crash, take the big life decisions off the table (where you're going to live, your job, your relationships, etc.) and wait. Once the storm passes, trust God to show you what He wants you to do.
- Joyce Meyer
Patience is not the ability to wait but how you act while you're waiting.
- Joyce Meyer
A humble mind enables us to take a back seat and wait for God to move us to the front.
- Joyce Meyer
And whether I come to my own today or in ten thousand or ten million years, I can cheefully take it now, or with equal cheerfulness I can wait... And as to you, Life, I reckon you are the leavings of many deaths, (No doubt I have died myself ten thousand times before.)
- Walt Whitman
4. There is a text that looms in resilient power. There is a waiting congregation, perhaps not tired out, but too sure of self, pretending buoyancy where there might have been transformation. There is the voice that takes the old script and renders it to evoke a new world we had not yet witnessed (cf. Isa. 43:19). The fourth and final partner is this better world given as fresh revelation.
- Walter Brueggemann
Ivan and Willis, watching as Sadie panted, stood up, and then lay down again. "It won't be long now." Willis's eyes sparkled. He was no doubt excited, even though this was probably old hat for him.
- Wanda Brunstetter
God's call to faithfulness can sometimes be a summons to be still and wait. There is a creative waiting as well as a creative acting.
- Daniel Migliore
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.
- James MacDonald
It will come back to you," cried the Rector, feverishly. "It will come back. Half an hour with the handbells——
- Dorothy Sayers