Tom Petty Quotes

Waiting is the hardest work of hope.

Ideally, I'm also sending a message that everything passes, even hope, and sometimes you have to be patient while you wait for it to come back around again.

Imagine if you grew up in a place and the team was bad for a long time and there's almost like a pride in being able to stay here and stick it out, knowing that you're going to get to where you promised yourself and you've been promised at some point.

You may be going through a trial so overwhelming that it's borderline unbearable. You want to see the end of the tunnel. Which is only natural, because once we see that little speck of light, we feel we can make it through to the finish. But God's tunnels are often twisting, too complex and dark to see the light for many days. In such settings He says, "In that dark, twisting, seemingly endless period of time, trust Me. Stop running scared! Stop fearing!"

Hope, O my soul, hope. You know neither the day nor the hour.

Darling, replied Valentine, has not the count just told us that all human wisdom was contained in these two words,- "Wait and hope"?

Patience is not passive resignation, nor is it failing to act because of our fears. Patience means active waiting and enduring. It means staying with something and doing all that we can - working, hoping, and exercising faith; bearing hardship with fortitude, even when the desires of our hearts are delayed. Patience is not simply enduring; it is enduring well!

Those who do not hope cannot wait; but if we hope for that we see not, then do we with patience wait for it.

Waiting is one of life’s hardships.

The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes.

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

Hope, O my soul, hope. Watch carefully, for everything passes quickly, even though your impatience turns a very short time into a long one.

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.

I was taught to think the next week or month or year will only get better than it is today. So I just keep waiting to see how great it will get!

Bear the Cross cheerfully and it will bear you.

Teach us, O Lord, the disciplines of patience, for to wait is often harder than to work.

Endure the present, and watch for better things.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Be patient, my soul: thou hath suffered worse than this.

Things will get better if you just hold out long enough.

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.

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.

I always tell people, 'It'll get greater later' meaning that sometimes we have to pass through whatever it is. We know that we can get through it because others have.

I don't stretch my hand out anymore, but I never get tired of waiting for the next magic.