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Quotes About Waiting

We need spring. We need it desperately, and, usually, we need it before God is willing to give it to us.
~ Peter Gzowski
God has a way of working on His own timetable. And it usually is a lot different from ours.
~ Chris Fabry
God isn't waiting on our memo. He is waiting on us to focus enough on Him that we get His memo.
~ Louie Giglio
God is never late, but rarely early.
~ Mother Teresa
God's timing is rarely our timing.
~ Kevin DeYoung
We must mark God's providence leading us; and if providence tarries, tarry till providence comes
~ Charles Spurgeon
No one warns young people to follow Adam's example. He waited till God saw his need. Then God made Adam sleep, prepared for his mate, and brought her to him.
~ Jim Elliot
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
~ John Ortberg
Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape.
~ Martin Luther
The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.
~ Anne Lamott
I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will.
~ Charlotte Bronte
I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.
~ Charlotte Bronte
God often guides by what He doesn't provide.
~ Craig Groeschel
That goes with the saying that you call on God a lot of times and you pray for things and it may not happen at that moment.
~ Terrell Owens
All the spaces between my mind and the mind of God are full of truths waiting to be crystallized into laws for the government of the masses.
~ Theodore Parker
She needed help, but God was in a meeting whenever she rang.
~ Tom Robbins
God knows, but He's waiting
~ Leo Tolstoy
Let me say that God will send me the plan when He gives the word as He has done before now.
~ Mahatma Gandhi
...When we are waiting upon God to bless us, we should stir up ourselves to bless him.
~ Matthew Henry
Waiting is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief.
~ Max Lucado
Every God-given vision will become real if we will only have patience.
~ Oswald Chambers
While you're waiting, God's working.
~ Rick Warren
Perhaps God waits for us to be empty, so he may fill us with himself.
~ Rick Yancey
Oh, save me God, but not quite yet.
~ Francine du Plessix Gray