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Quotes About Waiting

The greatest power is often simple patience.
~ E. Joseph Cossman
Perhaps you will have to spend hours on your knees or upon your face before the throne. Never mind. Wait. God will do great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him. Cooperate with Him.
~ John Smith
The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.
~ Alexander MacLaren
Do not be troubled if you do not immediately receive from God what you ask Him; for He desires to do something even greater for you, while you cling to Him in prayer.
~ Evagrius Ponticus
Prayer allows us to wait without worry.
~ John Ortberg
God answers prayer in three ways: yes, no, and wait awhile.
~ Norman Vincent Peale
Our prayer must be, "Father, I'm waiting for You because I know You are good in what You do and in when you do it.
~ James MacDonald
Some prayers have a longer voyage than others, but they return with the richer lading at last, so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
~ William Gurnall
There are three answers to prayer: yes no and wait awhile. It must be recognized that no is an answer.
~ Ruth Stafford Peale
Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others but then they return with their richer lading at last so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.
~ William Gurnall
Sometimes ... God answers our prayers in the way our parents do who reply to the pleas of their children with "Not just now" or "I'll have to think about that for a little while."
~ Roy M. Pearson
It is hard to wait and press and pray and hear no voice but stay till God answers.
~ E. M. Bounds
If God does not give you something you ask for wait on Him. He will speak with you tenderly and sympathetically about the matter until you yourself understand that He cannot grant your prayer.
~ O. Hallesby
Relationship is a pervading and changing mystery... brutal or lovely, the mystery waits for people wherever they go, whatever extreme they run to.
~ Eudora Welty
Wherever you go Whatever you do I will be right here waiting for you Whatever it takes Or how my heart breaks I will be right here waiting for you
~ Richard Marx
We who are left behind watch you on your way. The long prison of the years unlocks its' iron doors..go free now, into the beautiful land. Forgive us who suffer in this clouded world. Guide us and wait for us, as we wait for you. We will meet again. We will meet again.
~ William Nicholson
Mi, hátramaradottak, utadra bocsátunk. Sok év rabság vaskapujáról leverve a lakat. Menj hát szabadon a gyönyör? országba. Bocsáss meg nekünk, e befelhÅ'zött világon szenvedÅ'knek. Vezess bennünket, várj bennünket, ahogyan mi téged várunk. Még viszontlátjuk egymást.
~ William Nicholson
The Kurd stood waiting like an ancient debt.
~ William Peter Blatty
Gone hath the Spring, with all its flowers, and gone the Summer's pomp and show, and Autumn, in his leafless bowers, is waiting for the Winter's
~ William Roetzheim
There's some ill planet reigns: I must be patient till the heavens look With an aspect more favourable.
~ William Shakespeare
How poor are they that have not patience! What wound did ever heal but by degrees?
~ William Shakespeare
Patience, thou young and rose-lipp'd cherubin.
~ William Shakespeare
Before thy hour be ripe.
~ William Shakespeare
By and by is easily said.
~ William Shakespeare