Joseph Smith Jr. Quotes

Waiting is a sustained effort to stay focused on God through prayer and belief.

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.

It is hard to wait and press and pray, and hear no voice, but stay till God answers.

We shall not grow weary of waiting upon God if we remember how long and how graciously He once waited for us.

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

Patience is God's nature.

Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.

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

Ours is a God who waits. So who are we not to?

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

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.

Patience is the art of hoping.

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

No man is much good unless he believes in God and obeys His laws.

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

But the way to overcome is by patience, forgiving and praying for your enemies, in doing whereof you heap coals upon their heads, and your Lord shall open a door to you in your trouble: wait upon Him, as the night watch waiteth for the morning. He will not tarry. Go up to your watch-tower, and come not down, but by prayer, and faith, and hope, wait on.

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

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

Why is a believer patient? Because he looks for the coming of the Lord...He waits quietly for the King.

No matter how long it's been, no matter how impossible it looks, if you'll stay in faith, your time is coming.

Be patient in trials, watchful in prayer, and never cease working.

What then are we to do about our problems? We must learn to live with them until such time as God delivers us from them...we must pray for grace to endure them without murmuring. Problems patiently endured will work for our spiritual perfecting. They harm us only when we resist them or endure them unwillingly.

Waiting is the hardest work of hope.

They also swear who only stand and wait.