Pope Benedict XVI Quotes

To be sure, it was not Easter Sunday but Holy Saturday, but, the more I reflect on it, the more this seems to be fitting for the nature of our human life: we are still awaiting Easter; we are not yet standing in the full light but walking toward it full of trust.

Darkness comes. In the middle of it, the future looks blank. The temptation to quit is huge. Don't. You are in good company... You will argue with yourself that there is no way forward. But with God, nothing is impossible. He has more ropes and ladders and tunnels out of pits than you can conceive. Wait. Pray without ceasing. Hope.

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.

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

We must meditate on what God has done in our life instead of what we are still waiting on Him to do.

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

Everything evens up, you just wait, Even a garbage can gets a steak, You ain't even a garbage can, you have faith!

Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.

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.

Prayers are answered in one of four ways,” she said. “Yes. No. I have something else in mind. And . . .” She paused long enough for my impatience to show. “And what’s the fourth answer?” “Wait,” she said.

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

I said to my soul, be still, and wait without hope, For hope would be hope for the wrong thing.

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!

All human wisdom is summed up in two words; wait and 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.

I believe that a trusting attitude and a patient attitude go hand in hand. You see, when you let go and learn to trust God, it releases joy in your life. And when you trust God, you're able to be more patient. Patience is not just about waiting for something... it's about how you wait, or your attitude while waiting.

Sometimes you have to go through the wilderness before you get to the Promised Land.

God's delays are not God's denials.

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.

The truest definition of faith is having the belief you're going somewhere that you can't see, whether it's religion or football or learning to ride a bike.

I don't know what tomorrow holds. None of us do. We got to wait and see what God has planned.

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