Quotes About Waiting

Alice!" said the visitor's mild voice, "am I late to-night?" "You always seem late, but are always early.

God simply does not run this world by our timetable. What feels like a delay to us is right on schedule by His calendar. He often makes us wait, not to frustrate us, but to deepen our trust in Him.

But the Father never allows difficulty just for the sake of difficulty—there is always a higher purpose involved. The problem is we cannot always identify God's higher purpose in the midst of our trials. That's when we must exercise our faith by waiting on His word to us.

We're more intent on getting out of our circumstances than we are on finding out what great things God wants to show us. But the Father never allows difficulty just for the sake of difficulty—there is always a higher purpose involved. The problem is we cannot always identify God's higher purpose in the midst of our trials. That's when we must exercise our faith by waiting on His word to us.

We remain in our present circumstances until we receive further instructions and His intervention.

People count up the faults of those who keep them waiting.

February is merely as long as is needed to pass the time until March.

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope For hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing....

To the lover waiting for his love no sound is sadder than the tardy striking of the hours.

I found a quantity of sewing waiting with open arms to embrace me, or rather for me to embrace it, and I could hardly give myself up to "Nature's sweet restorer," for the ghosts of out-of-order garments crying for vengeance upon my defenceless head.

...like stealing the juice from tomorrow's fruit.

I've been waiting for 7 years for Obama to take my gun and all I got was a job, health insurance and marriage equality.

Life is always a rich and steady time when you are waiting for something to happen or to hatch.

Helpless, cruel hours of waiting in the night; lying on the left side the heart is smothered; turning on the right side, still no comfort; finally lying on the back; always a prey to the energy of the child, trying with one's hands pressed on the swelling body to give a message to the child. Cruel hours of tender waiting in the night. What seems countless nights passing like this. With what a price we pay for the glory of motherhood.

Nothing is more expensive than penuriousness; nothing is more anxious than carelessness; and every duty which is bidden to wait, returns with seven fresh duties at its back.

5Let all that I am wait quietly before God, for my hope is in him.

Patience means awaiting God's time, without doubting God's love.

The next forty-eight hours passed tediously and painfully, like a jagged kidney stone.

As Christ waits at the right hand of God (cf. Heb 10:12), in this season of grace, we wait. We wait, not in the sense that we are not active in completing the great commission. We wait in the sense that we shouldn't be anxious or worried about the apparent lack of fruit or evil that surrounds us. Christ is coming and his enemies will become his footstool (Heb 10:13).

I shall pray for your soul,' promised Nessarose. I shall wait for your shoes,' Elphie answered.

The poet is just like the fabled hunter who naps beside a tree, waiting for hares to break their skulls by running headlong into the tree trunk. After waiting for a long time, the poet discovers that he is the hare.

Come night, strike the hour. Days go, I endure.

Come night, strike hour.Days go, I endure.

How slow life seems to me, how violent the hope of love can be.