Waiting Quotes

Change moves incrementally from breath to breath and moment to moment, allowing for course-correction along the way.

~ Sharon Weil

Who knew why they waited, I thought, understanding that I, too, had it in me to wait. To expect change to come from outside, to concentrate on the task of meeting it, waiting to meet it, rather than going out and finding it.

~ Rachel Kushner

I must change my life so that I can live it, not wait for it.

~ Susan Sontag

We have to allow God to do a work in us before He can do a work through us.

~ Wendy Pope

I've learned that sometimes during these lengthy times of waiting on God to show up, we can gain comfort by looking at the bigger picture because history proves that the bigger the suffering, the bigger the opportunity for God to really show off.

~ Tracie Miles

Savour on the moment, while still waiting for sacred time.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

There are words in the soul of a newborn baby, wanting and waiting to be written.

~ Toba Beta

In my heaven sweet melodies of the skies ripple pool of the sea playing sweet song to me, sharing tales of the past, blending with mine as mirage, painting new...I breathe in, am in love and alive...

~ Oksana Rus

Whatever you are waiting for won’t come to you, you have to go for it.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

But, someone, please give me—who is born again but still so much in need of being born anew—give me the details of how to live in the waiting cocoon before the forever begins?

~ Ann Voskamp

There is time for every sacred activity under the sun.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

The Lord is perfect and patient. He knows exact when to act.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

IQ's are a combination of eyes, and queues. Would you wait in line to see my goat show? Of course you wouldn't, because the line is invisible.

~ Will Advise

I feel a new era coming in, standing on the shore, waiting for it to slowly greet me.

~ Charlotte Eriksson

It finally was entirely silent and I inhaled and breathed its magical peace...

~ Oksana Rus

Waiting hurts. Forgetting hurts. But not knowing which decision to take can sometimes be the most painful...

~ José N. Harris

I want to reach out and grab his hand and hold it to me, right over my heart, right where it aches the most. I don't know if doing that would heal me or make my heart break entirely, but either way this constant hungry waiting would be over.

~ Ally Condie

So it comes to this: I would have lost her either way. If Cole hadn't reinfected her, I would have lost her in the hospital bed. And now Cole's wolf tozin pumps through her veins, and I lose her to the woods, like I lose everything I love.So here is me, and I am a boy watched--by her parents' suspicious eyes, since they cannot prove that I kidnapped Grace but believe nonetheless--and I am a boy watchful--because Tom Culpeper's bitterness is growing palpable in this tiny town and I will NOT bury Grace's body--and I am a boy waiting--for the heat and the fruitfulness of summer, waiting to see who will walk out of those woods for me. Waiting for my lovely summer girl.

~ Maggie Stiefvater

Love has no fear, willing to take on anyone. But how much we fear love!

~ Anthony Liccione

...the waiting was torture, the worst Ka had ever known. It was this pain, this deadly wait, he now remembered, that had made him afraid to fall in love.

~ Orhan Pamuk

Weeping WidowsThere is a river that cuts ThroughThe heart of EveAnd flows throughParadise's back window.It streams into A bottomless wellThat rolls down to hellWith the tears of theWeeping widows.The women stand along the well,And cryWhile singing gray lullabiesAs orphaned childrenLight up candles to put on palm leavesTo push into the streamWith petals of jasmine And pieces of tangerine,Then sit back and wait for their fatherTo show up over the horizon Where his heart still beatsIn their dreams.

~ Suzy Kassem

In times of adversity and affliction, may you wait for the Lord to rescue and deliver you.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Often a Christian man or woman falls prey to that cruel and vexatious spirit, wondering how to find marriage, who, when, where? It is on God that we should wait, as a waiter waits--not for but on the customer--alert, watchful, attentive, with no agenda of his own, ready to do whatever is wanted. 'My soul, wait thou only upon God; for my expectation is from him.' (Ps. 62:5 KJV) In Him alone lie our security, our confidence, our trust. A spirit of restlessness and resistance can never wait, but one who believes he is loved with an everlasting love, and knows that underneath are the everlasting arms, will find strength and peace.

~ Elisabeth Elliot

indelible waitingl'art poetique..I will wait for the night to chase me...I sit on a rock and watch children playingin the park belowThey don't see meOr know my thoughtsOr that you haven't calledBut I forgive them their indifference todayAbove me a crow cawsPerhaps he smells the crumbs on my dressOr my angerBut he flits away over the treesProbably has a homeProbably has a wifeProbably knew to callThe children leaveThe coffee in my can turns coldThe wind nips at meSome street lights flicker onBut I won't moveNot yetI will wait for the night to chase meBack where I came fromUp the empty streetTo a quiet house

~ Adelheid Manefeldt

What you pray for today, will be manifest tomorrow.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

I can have patience for anything, but it's waiting for love, that kills me a little each day.

~ Anthony Liccione

Never wait until the end of your life to realize you have not live to fully love.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Every struggle is like mud - there are always some lotus seeds waiting to sprout.

~ Amit Ray

With discipline, dedication and diligence, you will achieve the goal.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Watch out, every day miraculous encounter with you and God!

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Time waits for no man but no man dares not wait for his Time.Love is patient but Time is not, yet it takes Time to find Love.Love they say, is blind. Because it covers a multitude of sins?To Love we should unwind, tell me when was the last Time.Love is steep; in no Time you fall in it.Time is free, howbeit, a sacrifice to spend with Love.The more Love fills the heart, the Less Time to mind...Yet, the same Time heals the heart when Love breaks it.Yay, the friendly enmity between Time and Love.Embrace it, only if you can!

~ Olaotan Fawehinmi

Our passing interrupted the road crossing, and the crowd bunched on both sides waited for us to go by as we all waited for the war to go by, thinking we can suspend or postpone living and not knowing that in war the heart grows older than it does in dreams

~ Dan Davin

Don't wait, just sweat.

~ Amit Kalantri

We often wait for that knock of opportunity, though I've found it's better to just grab a chainsaw and cut open your own fucking door.

~ Don Roff

The power of fasting is miraculous.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

God never fails. No matter how long it takes, the promise will be fulfilled.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Pray for what you want.Expect your answer in due time.Be strong to wait for the arrival of answer.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

As long as you call on God, He will answer you.

~ Lailah Gifty Akita

Perhaps you are just close to what you have been waiting for all along and ideas start formulating in your mind and advising you to give up. Tell them not me.

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Offence is like muddy soil; when trapped underfoot, it resists rapid progress. Don't trap offences under your mind, else you resist change! Jesus said Shake the soil off your sandals! What are you waiting for? Shake it off!

~ Israelmore Ayivor