William Gurnall Quotes

I'm practicing a kind of meandering faith, or faithful meandering. I just trust that something is coming. I don't know what it is. But I've been a straphanger all my life; I know what it's like to not know when the next train is coming, but I trust the subway.

To hope means to be ready at every moment for that which is not yet born, and yet not become desperate if there is no birth in our lifetime.

For love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

Wait and see.

I never want to get caught with not expecting something.

I'll be ready for my first kiss! When it happens, it'll happen, but I don't know. It doesn't look like that will be anytime soon.

I am not taking anything for granted.

All I can say is hold on, and prepare.

Waiting is the hardest work of hope.

What man would dare believe that all he planned might come to pass?

The Advent season is that time when we seek to, in a manner of speaking, mute our memory of what has already happened, that we might brighten our joy that it happened. We leave the already of His advent to taste the bitter of the not yet. We, in short, go back, that we might look forward to His coming.

Waiting is an expectant patience. It's a patience that says, "I don't know what God is going to do, but I know God is going to do something."

Advent is patience it's how God has made us a people of promise, in a world of impatience.

The Lord's people have always been a waiting people.

Expect everything, I always say, and the unexpected never happens.

For a while" is a phrase whose length can't be measured.At least by the person who's waiting.

You always got to be prepared but you never know for what.

Sometimes waiting is the hardest thing.

Above all trust in the slow work of God. Only God could say what this new spirit gradually forming within you will be. Give our Lord the benefit of believing that His hand is leading you, and accept the anxiety of feeling yourself in suspense and incomplete.

There is no place for faith if we expect God to fulfill immediately what he promises.

When love isn't in our lives, it's on the way. If you know that a special guest is coming at five o'clock, do you spend the day messing up the home? Of course not. You prepare. And that is what we should do for love.

I see my way as birds their trackless way. I shall arrive,- what time, what circuit first, I ask not; but unless God send his hail Or blinding fire-balls, sleet or stifling snow, In some time, his good time, I shall arrive: He guides me and the bird. In his good time.

Nothing is to be presumed on, or despaired of.

Someday is someday, and maybe it will be or maybe it won't. This is a human thing, to worry about things that may or may not come to be. You can't eat meat until you've killed it.

But if you come at just any time, I shall never know at what hour my heart is to be ready to greet you.