Top 100 Wait For God Quotes
#1. While we wait for God to work for us, God is waiting to work through us.
Rick Warren
#2. You can often help others more by correcting your own faults than theirs. Remember, and you should, because of your own experience, that allowing God to correct your faults is not easy. Be patient with people, wait for God to work with them as He wills.
Francois Fenelon
#3. Even though this generation still believes in the miracle working power of God, they must no longer wait for God to bring water from the rocks, but rather construct dams, develop water systems, subdue the power of the ocean and thereby give glory to God almighty.
Sunday Adelaja
#4. The fact is, we will all be broken - sooner or later. We can choose to be broken or we can wait for God to crush our pride. If we resist the means God provides to lead us to brokenness, we do not avoid brokenness - we simply make it necessary for God to intensify and prolong the process.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#5. We must wait for God, long, meekly, in the wind and wet, in the thunder and lightning, in the cold and the dark. Wait, and He will come. He never comes to those who do not wait.
Frederick William Faber
#7. We cannot simply pray and then wait for God to do the rest.
Philip Yancey
#8. If you wait for God to descend to earth and save you
from your fuck ups, you will be waiting until you
drop dead.
Sheeja Jose
#11. ...never act on the impulse of that feeling. If you do, you will cause difficult situations to arise which will take years to untangle. Wait for God's timing and He will do it without any heartache or disappointment.
Oswald Chambers
#12. Don't trade the ultimate for the immediate. Don't settle for less, wait for God's best.
Alex Gonzaga
#13. We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.
Oswald Chambers
#14. Everyone that wants to fulfil God's commission and His ministry in their lives has to know how to wait patiently, how to wait for God. Only when He then appears can success be guaranteed.
Sunday Adelaja
#15. Don't wait for God to break you. You can choose to be broken or you can wait for God to crush your pride.
Nancy Leigh DeMoss
#16. Human beings cannot probe the mind of God by asking themselves what they would do if they were God. They are men and not God. And if they are virtuous men, they will wait for God to reveal himself under conditions of his own choosing.
Edward John Carnell
#17. We wait for God to bless us while God waits for us to accept the blessing.
Betsy Otter Thompson
#18. It's not possible for a person who has one to one fellowship with God, someone who breaks through in prayer and who knows how to wait for God not to have open success. It's just not possible!
Sunday Adelaja
#19. But don't you hear what I've said?' David cried. 'It's this very vengeance and betrayal that's torn our country apart. Where will it end? If we believe in God, we must believe in a divine justice that in time will restore sanity.'
'I have no time,' said Mireille. 'I will not wait for God.
Katherine Neville
#20. Try to be patient and wait for God time to come and see how thing will work for you. Keep trying and never stop trying because there's no harm in that and one day you will hit your target.
Don Simon
#21. You don't need to wait for God to show up, in order to be rescued from your bad situation. God has been trying to get your attention for a really long time.
Shannon L. Alder
#22. Don't sit back and wait for God to do it all. Ask for His advice, but be prepared to do the hard yards yourself.
Morris Gleitzman
#23. We must first wait for God's law before we catch at his promises.
Matthew Henry
#24. The work that God does in us when we wait is usually more important than the thing for which we wait!
Erwin W. Lutzer
#25. As you submit your wills to God, you are giving Him the only thing you can actually give Him that is really yours to give. Don't wait too long to find the altar or to begin to place the gift of your wills upon it! No need to wait for a receipt; the Lord has His own special ways of acknowledging.
Neal A. Maxwell
#26. Only when we have done all we knew to do can we wait by faith for God to do what only He can do.
James MacDonald
#27. My God, if I had a heart, I would write my hate on ice, and wait for the sun to show.
Gabriel Garcia Marquez
#28. In times of trouble, be strong. And wait patiently for God to rescue you.
Lailah Gifty Akita
#29. I had struggled so hard and so long that I had simply exhausted myself, only to find that God had all the time in the world to wait for me to allow Him to free me.
Michelle McKinney Hammond
#30. Be patient in prayer, even though you should do nothing all your life but wait in patience, with a heart humbled, abandoned, resigned, and content for the return of your Beloved. Oh, excellent prayer! How it moves the heart of God, and obliges Him to return more than anything else!
Madame Guyon
#31. When we read of the great Biblical leaders, we see that it was not uncommon for God to ask them to wait, not just a day or two, but for years, until God was ready for them to act.
Gloria Gaither
#32. To wait, biblically speaking, is not to assume the worst, worry, make demands, or take control. Nor is waiting doing nothing. It is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief. To wait is to "rest in the LORD, and wait patiently for Him" (Psalm 37:7).
Max Lucado
#33. He who makes his needs known to God gains for immediate answer "the peace of God which passeth understanding," and can wait God's time for the rest.
Alexander MacLaren
#34. The plan of God is unknown but there is a definitely a plan that is revealed through in a mysterious way that leaves one wondering, if I did it?! I often wait to face the next mystery that remains a puzzle till it happens. Thank you God for the plan!
Santosh Avvannavar
#35. When you begin to wait for miracles, you give God a slap in the face.
Sunday Adelaja
#37. Man determines to dictate your turn, but God determines your time. It was Saul's turn, but it was David's time. Don't wait for your turn, wait for your time.
Lee M. Sapp
#38. God does not wait for us to go to him, but it is he who moves toward us, without calculation, without quantification.
Pope Francis
#39. If we wait for the needy to walk through our church doors, we may wait a long time. God doesn't wait for people to come to Him. He goes to them.
Beth Moore
#40. Don't wait around waiting for God to do something that He's already given you the power to do.
Joyce Meyer
#41. There's something about patience that God deems necessary for our life in the age to come and so, whether through agriculture or discipleship or bodily development or eschatology or procreation, God makes us wait
Russell D. Moore
#42. It makes it easier to wait for the man God has for me," Said Elly, "Because I already have the most important relationship. I can spend my life loving and being loved by the perfect Bridegroom. I don't have to wait for a man to fall in love with me to make me happy.
Jennae Noelle
#43. Time determines the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities, but God determines the time for the occurrence of possibilities and impossibilities.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#44. Think of God; attachments will gradually drop away. If you wait till all desires disappear before starting your devotion and prayer, you will have to wait for a very long time indeed.
Ramana Maharshi
#46. Don't wait until the moment of crisis. Plan ahead, hide God's Word in your heart, and pray in advance for victory, holiness, and a life pleasing to God.
David Jeremiah
#47. God aims to exalt Himself by working for those who wait for Him.
John Piper
#48. There is hope for me yet
Because God won't forget
All the plans he's made for me
I have to wait and see
He's not finished with me yet
Brandon Heath
#49. But in everything we should surrender our desires to God in prayer. Then we must wait for His response, that we can walk by faith and not by sight.
Adam Houge
#50. While you wait for your godly man, you should maintain the posture of a well-kept woman [ ... ] The person should add to, not take away from, your life. You maintain who you are and allow God to be picky for you.
Michelle McKinney Hammond
#51. Let us wait in patience for the Christ-child whose own life depended on the lives of Mary and Joseph. The Word of God was made flesh. He came so that we might experience the fullness of time.
Stanley Hauerwas
#52. God is a place you will wait for the rest of your life
Jeff Mangum
#53. You'll find another.'
God! Banish the thought. Why don't you tell me that 'if the girl had been worth having she'd have waited for you'? No, sir, the girl really worth having won't wait for anybody.
F Scott Fitzgerald
#54. Ours is a God who waits. Who are we not to? It takes what it takes for the great turnaround. Wait for it.
Gregory Boyle
#55. 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
#56. God doesn't owe you an explanation or reason for everything he asks you to do. Understanding can wait, but obedience can't.
Rick Warren
#57. Have interesting failures ... If you need to have a personal crisis have it now. Don't wait until midlife, when it will take longer to resolve ... Don't pity yourselves. Lighten up. Seek people with a sense of humor. Avoid humorless people-and do not marry one, for God's sake.
Garrison Keillor
#58. God is found in this Life ... to wait for another is folly.
Dan Simmons
#59. I sometimes don't try to invent something. I wait for some kind of a direction - and it happens. I get an angle, for instance, and it just appears, and I say, 'Oh my God - that's it!'
Ellsworth Kelly
#60. In some ways, I never outgrew my adolescence. I wake up in the morning and think, 'Oh my God, I'm late for a math test!' But then I say, 'Wait a minute. I'm 40.
Daniel Clowes
#61. He that is impatient, and cannot wait on God for a mercy, will not easily submit to Him in a denial.
William Gurnall
#62. 4 v Make me to know your ways, O LORD; teach me your paths. 5 Lead me in your w truth and teach me, for you are the God of my salvation; for you I wait all the day long.
Anonymous
#63. When we in prayer seek only the glorification of the name of God, then we are in complete harmony with the Spirit of prayer. Then our hearts are at rest both while we pray and after we have prayed. Then we can wait for the Lord.
Ole Hallesby
#64. Everything else can wait, but the search for God cannot wait.
George Harrison
#65. It takes courage to seek God, and courage to wait for His reply.
John Eldredge
#66. Seeing that our thirst was increasing and the water was killing us, while the storm did not abate, we agreed to trust to God, Our Lord, and rather risk the perils of the sea than wait there for certain death from thirst.
Alvar N. C. De Vaca
#67. Strike the rock and the water will flow; don't wait to brag about why you alone can hit the rock for water to flow; just go and do it because the world is thirsty! Your potentials are in put in you by God because he knows there is a need to be fulfilled; awaken it and present it to us!
Israelmore Ayivor
#68. Is it God? Did God set up the dominoes and wait for some human to flick the first one? Or is it the opposite way around? Did humans set them up so God could do the flicking?
Allan Wolf
#70. God doesn't wait for us to get ourselves polished, shined, proper, and without blemish - God comes to us and meets us and blesses us while we are still in the middle of the mess we created.
Rob Bell
#71. Confusion is a gift from God. Those times when you feel most desperate for a solution, sit. Wait. The information will become clear. The confusion is there to guide you. Seek detachment and become the producer of your life.
The RZA
#72. The reformer is careless of numbers, disregards popularity, and deals only with ideas, conscience, and common sense. He feels, with Copernicus, that as God waited long for an interpreter, so he can wait for his followers.
Wendell Phillips
#73. Bonum est praestolari cum silentio salutare Dei. ("It is good to wait in silence for the salvation of God.")
Thomas Merton
#74. Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape.
Martin Luther
#75. Better advice is to wait and chase God. While you're waiting for the love of your life, pursue God.
Kelsey Kupecky
#76. Easy for you to say. You're the one who got plowed. I was doing the plowing. Cam's mouth opened. Oh my God, did I really just say that? I had.
Jennifer L. Armentrout
#77. God reveals himself to those who wait for that revelation, and who don't try to tear at the hem of a mystery, forcing disclosure.
Catherine Doherty
#78. God alone, O my soul, wait in silence, for my hope is from him.
Anonymous
#79. God is like a person who clears his throat while hiding and so gives himself away. God lies in wait for us with nothing so much as love.
Meister Eckhart
#80. You could wait to do something for God, but if He waited to do something for you, you couldn't finish reading this sentence ...
Garrett McCoy
#81. When Jesus sees a heart that can't wait, He cant wait either. At the wedding at Cana, Jesus may have done nothing if it wasn't for Mary's faith. How many situations are we in now that God won't act without our faith?
Reinhard Bonnke
#82. I never really got the book together for the thing, so I had all the songs and the characters. But by the time we'd gotten it on the road and I'd been doing it for 18 months, oh God, I couldn't wait to move on to something else.
David Bowie
#83. 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.
Ole Hallesby
#84. For God's sake, don't let her watch Cinderella. What kind of example is that? A mindless twit who can't even remember where she left her damn shoe, so she has to wait for some douchebag in tights to bring it to her? Give me a frigging break!
Emma Chase
#85. What relationships need strengthening in your life? Don't wait for them to grow cold or bitter, but ask God to help you strengthen them by putting God's love into action - begin today.
Billy Graham
#86. Pretending to have faith is not the way. You need to call to God to reveal himself to you in his power, and then wait for him to come and find you.
Greg Pruett
#87. The truth is that God has a miracle planned for you too, if you are willing to expect it, look for it, and wait for it to play out in God's perfect timing.
Tracie Miles
#88. 'Faith cometh by hearing and hearing by the Word of God' (Rom. 10:17). That is whence faith comes. It is not for me to sit down and wait for faith to come stealing over me with a strong sensation, but is for me to take God at His Word.
Dwight L. Moody
#89. Phillip hardened his grip on Totka's. "For all our manipulations, God always manages to get His way."
"A beautiful woman once told me our Jesus Creator is a good and wise chief, worthy of obedience without question. His plan is perfect. Wait, and you will see.
April W. Gardner
#90. If the kingdom of God had departments, we'd want to work in research and development. We felt like Jesus didn't hang out at the synagogue, he hung out at wells. Coffeehouses are postmodern wells. Let's not wait for people to come to us, let's go to them.
Mark Batterson
#91. Most of us wait until we're in trouble, and then we pray like the dickens. Wonder what would happen if, some morning, we'd wake up and say, "Anything I can do for You today, Lord?"
Bill Vaughan
#92. We are so busy telling God where we would like to go. We wait with the idea of some great opportunity, something sensational, and when it comes we are quick to cry, 'Here am I.' Readiness for God means that we are ready to do the tiniest little thing or the great big thing, it makes no difference.
Oswald Chambers
#93. So be willing to wait. Only embrace a man who has a heart for God's purposes for his life and God's heart for you. Keep hope alive!
Michelle McKinney Hammond
#94. Patiently, hopefully, actively we are waiting for Jesus. And yet here is the astonishing twist: As we wait for our Lord and the bodily resurrection yet to come for the departed, the world waits for us. As we long for God, the world is longing for God in us.
Jonathan Martin
#95. Your prayers may appear to go unanswered for many reasons. God may simply be giving you the answer that you are to wait. It could be that some sin in your life is clouding your communication with Him.
Stormie O'martian
#96. When God puts something in your heart and deep down you know it's a destiny moment, don't wait for ten confirmations. Do what God is asking you to do now.
Joel Osteen
#97. Father Tim: Know that God has a plan for your future. Watch and wait for his timing, and when it comes, hitch a ride. You'll know.
Jan Karon
#98. I left L.A. and moved to Cleveland for four years in the early 2000s or whatever. I came back and thought that everything had changed. I was like, 'Oh my God, I don't think I ever fit in here. And wait, who are all of these celebrities that are not actors? Where did all of the actors go?'
Monica Potter
#99. You can't wait for the race to start to get ready. That's a loss. You must get your mind right before you get to the starting line. Mindset is everything!
Bobby F. Kimbrough Jr.
#100. To love God is to love His will. It is to wait quietly for life to be measured by One who knows us through and through. It is to be content with His timing and His wise appointment.
Elisabeth Elliot
