Quotes on Patience & Waiting

Christian quotes on Patience & Waiting — with author, dates and source, from two millennia of Christian thought.

Those who wait on God lose nothing by waiting.

Corrie ten Boom

God often gives in a single moment what he has withheld for a long time. For the Lord bestows blessing where he finds empty vessels.

Thomas à Kempis

Patience! patience! you are always in a hurry, but God is not.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

All growing in nature, in human beings, in love must wait, be patient, until its time to bloom comes.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Over the years you will go through seasons in which you have to learn to love a person who you didn’t marry, who is something of a stranger.

Tim Keller

Dios no duerme, pero tampoco se apresura. Él sabe lo que hace. Él tiene un plan y es un plan de amor.

Tim Keller

By perseverance the snail reached the ark.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

Start by doing what's necessary; then do what's possible; and suddenly you are doing the impossible.

Francis of Assisi

Faith is not for overcoming obstacles; it is for experiencing them—all the way through!

Richard Rohr

Learn to wait, for either things change or your heart does.

Johann Michael Sailer

What you have built over years, people can destroy overnight. Keep building anyway.

Mother Teresa

God created time, but he said nothing about hurry.

Irisches Sprichwort

God delays in answering our prayers because men would pluck their mercies green; God would have them ripe.

Unknown

Set no time to the Lord the creator of time, for His time is always best.

Samuel Rutherford

When comfort is withdrawn, do not be cast down, but humbly and patiently await the visitation of God. He is able and powerful to give you more grace and more spiritual comfort than you first had.

Thomas à Kempis

No one possesses God in such a way that they no longer have to wait for him completely. And yet: no one can wait for God who does not know that God has already been waiting for them for a long time.

Dietrich Bonhoeffer

Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.

Francis de Sales

Have patience with all things, but chief of all with yourself.

Francis de Sales

Doubt is not healed by pressure, but requires reverence, patience, and time.

Romano Guardini

Where there is patience and humility, there is neither anger nor confusion.

Francis of Assisi

Blessed are the flexible hearts, for they shall never break.

Francis de Sales

Our perfection consists for the most part in bearing with one another in our imperfections.

Francis de Sales

My father was a better bricklayer than I am a theologian. I am still in too much of a hurry. But if the work I have done in theology is of any use, it is because of what I learned on the job, that is, you can lay only one brick at a time.

Stanley Hauerwas

A hero is no braver than an ordinary man, but he is brave five minutes longer.

Ralph Waldo Emerson

Have a heart that never hardens, and a temper that never tires, and a touch that never hurts.

Charles Dickens

For us, there is only the trying. The rest is not our business.

T.S. Eliot

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.

Thomas Merton

The life of faith is not a life of mounting up with wings, but a life of walking and not fainting.

Oswald Chambers

Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer… He may sometimes keep us long waiting…but He will never send us empty away.

John Charles Ryle

Whoever wants to build high towers must dwell long at the foundation.

Anton Bruckner

The believer waits, God works. The Lord has taken our cause into his hand, and he will not withdraw it until he has fulfilled all his promises.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

All your prayers are kept in heaven. Even if they are not answered at once, they are not forgotten.

Charles Haddon Spurgeon

The new life in Christ is not an ecstatic rush upward, but a forward walk with infinite, steady, unconquerable patience.

Oswald Chambers

If you wait in hope and stay still, strength will flow to you. It remains God's will to work wonders. Through stillness and hope you will grow strong and steady, and see heaven open, which will not abandon you.

Jochen Klepper

Today everything has to happen fast. In this time that has no time, try to remain human. Don't let yourself be rushed! Even the snail reached Noah's ark!

Phil Bosmans

Christians live at the expense of Jesus' grace and can therefore bear the cost of holding back.

Paul Deitenbeck

We wait, but our waiting is hoping.

Friedrich von Bodelschwingh

When you wait, you are not doing nothing. You are doing something: you are letting your soul grow up.

Mike Yaconelli

Patience means: God knows best when it's my turn.

Peter Hahne

Some things are not refused, they are only postponed, to be given at the right time.

Augustine of Hippo

People quoted here

Corrie ten Boom, Thomas à Kempis, Charles Haddon Spurgeon, Dietrich Bonhoeffer, Tim Keller, Francis of Assisi, Richard Rohr, Johann Michael Sailer, Mother Teresa, Irisches Sprichwort, Unknown, Samuel Rutherford

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