John Chrysostom Quotes

Jesus hears us, and in His own good time will give an answer... He may sometimes keep us long waiting...but He will never send us empty away.

I just don't see the point in sitting around hollering the blues over things you have no control over. It's all in God's hands.

He guides me and the bird. In His good time!

God's "nothings" are His most positive answers. We have to stay on God and wait. Never try to help God to fulfill His word.

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

He who waits on God loses no time.

Whenever the Lord holds us in suspense, and delays his aid, he is not therefore asleep, but, on the contrary, regulates all His works in such a manner that he does nothing but at the proper time.

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.

It's an exciting life. I don't know where God is leading us. I just know that He opens doors and He closes the doors, and it is always the best for us.

I never was deeply interested in any object; I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything, but it came at some time - no matter how distant, in some way, in some shape, probably the last I should have devised, it came. And yet, I have always had so little faith. God forgive me.

It's in God's hands.

If God is slow in answering your request, or if you ask but do not promptly receive anything, do not be upset, for you are not wiser than God.

The Lord may not come when you want Him, but he's always going to be there on time.

God will open any doors he wants to open, and if He closes doors, that's fine, too.

Now I can do no more. We must trust to the Great Disposer of all events and the justice of our cause. I thank God for this opportunity of doing my duty.

I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.

While we see the course of the final abolition of human slavery is onward, & we give it the aid of our prayers & all justifiable means in our power, we must leave the progress as well as the result in his hands who sees the end; who chooses to work by slow influences; & with whom two thousand years are but as a single day.

When I went through my divorce, I decided that I was going to pray this time for someone. Then, God sent me someone. I prayed for the specific qualities I wanted in a man, and I wasn't going to settle for anything less.

Be patient - if something is supposed to happen, it's going to happen. Whenever I've tried to force things, they didn't go right.

I trust God's timing. I'm a very spiritual person, and a lot of times, we want things on our time, and we come up with our own plans of what we want to do with our lives, but God be like, 'Haha, you're funny. That's cute. Anyways, this is what you're going to do,' and I've learned to just sit back.

I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless he sees that it is good for him to wait.

Above all, trust in the slow work of God.

God leads us. God will do the right thing at the right time. And what a difference that makes.

Pray that God will open the doors you can't open and close the doors that need to be closed.