quotations about waiting
The Lord is waiting to be gracious to us. Therefore we must wait because His ways are far higher than our ways. As we wait, the hidden lies of the enemy that have had a stronghold in our thought processes will be exposed.
MARILYN ADAMS
"God Talk: Waiting in faith", Redbluff Daily News, March 24, 2017
Some things are out of our control. We don't get to choose when we meet the person we will marry. We don't get to choose when we get a promotion or have a baby. When a period of waiting comes up in our lives, the concept is foreign to us. Our everything-on-demand culture has destroyed our ability to wait.
CARRIE DEDRICK
"When Waiting is the Last Thing You Want to Do", Crosswalk, July 29, 2016
Yes, waiting is our work, or at least a critical aspect of it. Waiting is a purposeful holding back. A form of internal leash yanking. It is placing a bit in the mouth of your desires and yanking on the reins when they begin to gallop beyond their place. And since restraint is involved, it is painful. Not perhaps like being stung by a bee, or smacked in the face, but more like the pain of a full bladder. If you don't get to say or have or do what you feel you must, you just know you're going to burst!
ERIC YOUNGBLOOD
"When The Sun Refuses To Shine", The Chattanoogan, April 11, 2017
So if waiting is an aggravation, it is at least partly because we do not like being reminded of our limits. We like doing -- earning, buying, selling, building, planting, driving, baking -- making things happen, whereas waiting is essentially a matter of being -- stopping, sitting, listening, looking, breathing, wondering, praying. It can feel pretty helpless to wait for someone or something that is not here yet and that will or will not arrive in its own good time, which is not the same thing as our own good time.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
Gospel Medicine
He who knows how to wait for what he desires does not feel very desperate if he fails in obtaining it; and he, on the contrary, who is very impatient in procuring a certain thing, takes so much pains about it, that, even when he is successful, he does not think himself sufficiently rewarded.
JEAN DE LA BRUYÈRE
"Of the Affections", Les Caractères
Waiting is a peculiar state in which doing doesn't cease; it is just restrained, like an impatient horse. We wait in lines, we wait at bus stops, we wait at red lights, we wait for elevators, we wait in elevators -- we wait for the show to begin. Such waiting puts us in a kind of limbo in which we can't stop doing even though there is nothing to do: closed off from the energy of Being, our hearts grow tense as we strain towards a better future when we will finally be able to start doing again, as if by so straining we could hurry time along. We are addicts, and doing is our fix.
PHILIP SHEPHERD
New Self, New World: Recovering Our Senses in the Twenty-First Century
Waiting was a sin against both the time that was still to come and the moments one was currently disregarding.
NEIL GAIMAN
Neverwhere
Waiting is often the hardest thing to do, especially when it comes to pregnancy tests and sports seasons.
NATHAN GIESE
"An anxious offseason greets Oklahoma football fans", Fanrag, April 14, 2017
All things come to him who waits, but they come faster if he meets them halfway.
EVAN ESAR
20,000 Quips & Quotes
If something takes too long, something happens to you. You become all and only the thing you want and nothing else, for you have paid too much for it, too much in wanting and too much in waiting and too much in getting.
ROBERT PENN WARREN
All the King's Men
It has been programmed into our conscious and subconscious minds that we are to believe and think that waiting is an acceptable means to an end. We have become a global community that relies on patience, because waiting has become the norm.
ASA DON BROWN
Waiting to Live
Deep under our feet the Earth holds its molten breath, while the bones of countless generations watch us and wait.
ISAAC MARION
Warm Bodies
There is a waiting without expectation. It can set in when one has waited for something so long, without seeing any signs of imminent fulfillment, that the object of expectation gradually begins to fade, and yet one does not stop waiting. The state of fulfillment lasts unchanged, but the hope of putting an end to it has been imperceptibly eroded and the waiting has become empty, mere opening onto infinite lack.
HANS-JOST FREY
Interruptions
Waiting is definitely a test. It tests our patience and our loyalty. It tests our love and our mercy. Waiting is not for the weak.
LEE YOUNG
The Journey: Understanding God's Plan for Your Life
Waiting is the experience of distance between stimulus and response. It is the experience of slowed time between action and consequence, question and answer, between the glimmer of an idea and the assertion of it.
LEE HERMAN & ALAN MANDELL
From Teaching to Mentoring
Sitting and waiting is one of the most miserable occupations known to man -- not that it usually is known to men; women do it much more often.
DIANA GABALDON
Dragonfly in Amber
Waiting is not an emergency.
JAMIE SCOTT
B & T, February 26, 2017
Waiting is hard; it often means sitting with the unknown.
STAFF WRITER
"Jesus brings light into our darkness", Henley Standard, April 17, 2017
The waiting time, my brothers,
Is the hardest time of all.
SARAH DOUDNEY
The Hardest Time of All
Our waiting is not nothing. It is something -- a very big something -- because people tend to be shaped by whatever it is they are waiting for.
BARBARA BROWN TAYLOR
Gospel Medicine