Waiting On God Quotes

• Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one's thoughts.

  Elisabeth Elliot

  Heart, Waiting, Unanswered Questions

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• Waiting for God is not laziness. Waiting for God is not the abandonment of effort. Waiting for God means, first, activity under command; second, readiness for any new command that may come; third, the ability to do nothing until the command is given.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Mean, Effort, Waiting

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• Sometimes when we're waiting for God to speak, He's waiting for us to listen.

  Martha Bolton

  Faith, Waiting, Sometimes

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• The only thing harder than waiting on God, is wishing that you had!

  Steven Furtick

  Waiting, Wish, Harder

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• Waiting is an exercise of faith that demonstrates the condition of our hearts. Waiting on God is an act of faith. And faith is what separates the men from the boys.

  Steve Farrar

  Heart, Exercise, Boys

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• True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.

  N. T. Wright

  Dark, Waiting, Trust In God

  N. T. Wright (2014). “For All God's Worth: True Worship and the Calling of the Church”, p.7, Wm. B. Eerdmans Publishing

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• A lot of times, we're waiting for God to do what God is waiting for us to do.

  Steve Arterburn

  Waiting

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• Waiting for God means power to do nothing save under command. This is not lack of power to do anything. Waiting for God needs strength rather than weakness. It is power to do nothing. It is the strength that holds strength in check. It is the strength that prevents the blundering activity which is entirely false and will make true activity impossible when the definite command comes.

  G. Campbell Morgan

  Mean, Waiting, Weakness

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• You can save a lot of time waiting on God.

  Adrian Rogers

  Waiting, Praiseworthy

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• If you're waiting with God, waiting is okay. If you're always waiting on God, you'll be frustrated. God never seems to work at the speed that we want Him to.

  Louie Giglio

  Waiting, Frustrated, Want

  "A conversation with pastor, author and songwriter Louie Giglio". Interview with Chad Bonham, www.beliefnet.com.

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• True worship doesn't put on a show or make a fuss; true worship isn't forced, isn't half-hearted, doesn't keep looking at its watch, doesn't worry what the person in the next pew is doing. True worship is open to God, adoring God, waiting for God, trusting God even in the dark.

  N. T. Wright

  Dark, Worry, Waiting

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• When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me.

  Andy Andrews

  Life, People, Decision

  Andy Andrews (2009). “Traveler's Gift; Mastering the Seven Decisions”, p.200, Thomas Nelson Inc

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• Don’t wait around waiting for God to do something that He’s already given you the power to do.

  Joyce Meyer

  Waiting, Given

  Twitter post from Mar 20, 2013

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• One of the greatest strains in life is the strain of waiting for God.

  Oswald Chambers

  Waiting, Life Is, Strain

  Oswald Chambers (2015). “Hope: A Holy Promise”, p.62, Discovery House

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• Most of us use ‘I’m waiting for God to reveal His calling on my life’ as a means of avoiding action.  Did you hear God calling you to sit in front of the television yesterday?  Or to go on your last vacation?  Or exercise this morning?  Probably not, but you still did it.  The point isn’t that vacations or exercise are wrong, but that we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving  God.

  Francis Chan

  Morning, Mean, Exercise

  Francis Chan (2013). “Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God”, p.169, David C Cook

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• Meditation is waiting on God.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Meditation, Waiting

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.107, Orient Paperbacks

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• The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass.

  Philip Yancey

  God, Christian, Religious

  Philip Yancey (2009). “Disappointment with God: Three Questions No One Asks Aloud”, p.237, Harper Collins

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• You may be sitting around waiting for God to change your circumstances. Then you’re going to be happy, then your’re going to have a good attitude, then you’re going to give God praise. But God is waiting on you to get up on the inside. When you do your part, He’ll begin to change things and work supernaturally in your life.

  Joel Osteen

  Attitude, Giving, Waiting

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• Perhaps out inactivity is not so much waiting on God as it is an expression of the fear of man, the love of the praise of man, and disbelief in God's providence.

  Kevin DeYoung

  Men, Expression, Waiting

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• Waiting on God means increasing purity.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  God, Mean, Waiting

  Mahatma Gandhi (1978). “Hindu Dharma”, p.107, Orient Paperbacks

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• We must give up the silly idea of folding our hands and waiting on God to do everything for us. If God had intended for that, then he would not have given us a mind. Whatever you want in life, you must make up your mind to do it for yourself.

  Marcus Garvey

  Giving Up, Silly, Hands

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• You are just one idea away from what you sow in your brains, in your prophecies that God spoke over your life. You're one idea away. You are not waiting on God - God is waiting on you! I'm sorry, I didn't mean to go on and on about that. I have this stuff in me and I have no place to release it to you because sometimes church people are so spiritual they make me nauseous, because they expect God to do everything.

  T. D. Jakes

  Spiritual, Sorry, Mean

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• All around the world, we are gazing skyward waiting for God… Never realizing that God is waiting for us.

  Dan Brown

  Waiting, Gazing, World

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• Therefore, those to whom God has imparted religion by intuition are very fortunate and justly convinced. But to those who do not have it, we can give it only by reasoning, waiting for God to give them spiritual insight, without which faith is only human and useless for salvation.

  Blaise Pascal

  Spiritual, Giving, Waiting

  Blaise Pascal (2013). “Pensées”, p.80, Courier Corporation

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• I'm just waiting for God to tell me what to do, but whatever it is, I want to be doing something like I am doing now-serving God and helping people.

  Bethany Hamilton

  People, Waiting, Want

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