Robert Herrick Quotes

Never think that God's delays are God's denials. True prayer always receives what it asks, or something better.

God's delay's are not His denials

I don't worry about being in a hurry any more, because my faith in God will always deliver me on time.

Many times, we miss out on God's best because we give up too soon. We don't realize how close we are to victory.

God gives us the vision, then He takes us down to the valley to batter us into the shape of the vision, and it is in the valley that so many of us faint and give way. Every vision will be made real if we will have patience. Think of the enormous leisure of God! He is never in a hurry.

Prayer is a salve for every sore, a remedy for every malady; and when we are afflicted with thorns in the flesh, we should give ourselves to prayer. If an answer be not given to the first prayer, nor to the second, we are to continue praying. Troubles are sent to teach us to pray; and are continued, to teach us to continue instant in prayer.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

When God gives you a vision and darkness follows, wait. God will bring the vision He has given you to reality in your life if you will wait on His timing. Never try to help God fulfill His word

Never place a period where God has placed a comma.

The dark moments of our life will last only so long as is necessary for God to accomplish His purpose in us.

While you're waiting, God's working.

I believe the prayers of 30 years ago are not lost. We may not see the results of our labour or sacrifice immediately, but in due time they will produce much fruit.

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

When God wants to make a mushroom, he does it overnight, but when He wants to make a giant oak, He takes a hundred years. Great souls are grown through struggles and storms and seasons of suffering. Be patient with the process.

Thank God when he oppresses you, and again when he releases you.

God has promised to every single one of us that even in our hardest times, if we would just hang on long enough, the blessing will come.

We must let patience have its perfect work, remembering that there are precious promises in the Scriptures for those who wait upon the Lord.

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.

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.

Endure the present, and watch for better things.

God may not be there when you want him but he is always on time.

The Bible is replete with commands to persevere, especially in the face of injustice.

Faith is not simply a patience that passively suffers until the storm is past. Rather, it is a spirit that bears things - with resignations, yes, but above all, with blazing, serene hope.

I felt the Lord telling me just to be patient all year. Whether it happened this year, next, or never, everything was going to be okay.