Quotes about Timing

and said, “Everyone serves the fine wine first, and then the cheap wine after the guests are drunk. But you have saved the fine wine until now!”

(For John had not yet been thrown into prison.)

Therefore Jesus told them, “Although your time is always at hand, My time has not yet come.

Go up to the feast on your own. I am not going up to this feast, because My time has not yet come.”

Jesus replied, “It is not for you to know times or seasons that the Father has fixed by His own authority.

Paul had decided to sail past Ephesus to avoid spending time in the province of Asia, because he was in a hurry to reach Jerusalem, if possible, by the day of Pentecost.

For at just the right time, while we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly.

For, “In just a little while, He who is coming will come and will not delay.

Be patient, then, brothers, until the Lord’s coming. See how the farmer awaits the precious fruit of the soil—how patient he is for the fall and spring rains.

give the situation an opportunity to work itself out before reacting. Many times these situations resolve themselves or aren't quite as urgent as he perceives, but before you know it, he's heightened the intensity with a flurry of messages.

And when I think about it, I guess it is true that people always arrive at the right moment at the place where someone awaits them.

God makes everything beautiful in His time, He makes everything happen at the right moment, at the moment He has fixed for it, so that history in its entirety and in its parts corresponds to the counsel of God and exhibits the glory of that counsel.