Quotes About Waiting

I despaired at the thought that my life might slip by without seeing God show himself mightily on our behalf.

The hardest part of faith is often simply to wait. And the trouble is, if we don't, then we start to fix the problem ourselves - and that makes it worse. We complicate the situation to the point where it takes God much longer to fix it than if we had quietly waited for his working in the first place.

If you have been waiting for an answer to prayer for a long time, remember that long waits often occur right before the biggest mountains come down.

God always gives His best to those who leave the choice with him.

When you don't understand what is happening, you need to wait, trust God, and rest in His care. He is always faithful to His own.

Two of the greatest hungers in our world today are the hunger for spirituality and the hunger for social change. The connection between the two is the one the world is waiting for, especially the new generation. And the first hunger will empower the second.

If the phone doesn't ring, it's me.

We were outsiders, waiting to become invisible. Waiting to amount to nothing.

Melhor que era para logo, para o seguinte: dois camaradas do dito fazendeiro estavam ali no Curralim, esperando decisão, agora me levavam.

A lot of energy is used up in the name of this false patience.

It's important to recognize that the opportunity for such mean-ingful work didn't appear out of thin air. It was the result of a clear intention to follow guidance, a willingness to wait until the way revealed itself, and a strong desire to match my work in the world with my inner journey to God.

Ezer világon és tízezer életen át is kereslek majd, amíg meg nem talállak. - Én pedig várok majd rá, minden világban és minden életben...

Even the most damaged and disenchanted teenager was only waiting for someone to see the real persona beneath the defense and respond with genuine caring. (63)

The act of creation fascinates me. You can only sit with blank page and wait. You cannot press a button, cannot program it.

I had a blind date with a dentist — and he told me to come back in six months.

Faith is about how you live your life in the meantime, how you make decisions when you don't know for sure what's next. What you do with yourself between the last time you heard from God and the next time you hear from God is the ongoing challenge of a life of faith.5

We'll date later … maybe next year. Until then, I'll be the guy fucking you. And the guy who bandages up your feet. You can cry on me, too, but I'm not gonna let you dump me until we've had a real chance. Sooner or later, you'll be ready to live again. I can wait.

To him the stars seemed like so many musical notes affixed to the sky, just waiting for somebody to unfasten them. Someday the sky would be emptied, but by then the earth would be a constellation of musical scores

She tried to decide whether the silence was an empty one or a waiting one.

I kept my eyes on the doorway. Me, and a hundred wooden birds.

Savor the little moments, son, that's my advice. They're what life is. All the little things that happen while you're waiting for something else.

The good Lord had miracles in his pocket but he hadn't sent one down for her.

A watched pot never boils

She would wait, forever if necessary, for a man who saw the expanse of her, the