John Piper Quotes

For reasons known to the Lord, some women are required to wait to have children. This delay is not easy for any righteous woman. But the Lord's timetable for each of us does not negate our nature.

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

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.

Human anger does not produce the righteousness that God desires.

God's delays are not God's denials.

'Work and wait', 'work and wait' is what God says to us in creation.

I've learned over the years to appreciate God's timing, and you can't rush things; it's gonna happen exactly when it's supposed to.

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 mill of the gods grinds slowly but it grinds exceeding, small

And I have to be willing to be patient to allow God's plan to unfold and not go ahead and try to make my own circumstances happen for me. So, I've learned that He can be trusted for every need and desire but at the same time that may require patience on my end.

God's time never stops.

Cast not away your confidence because God defers his performances. That which does not come in your time, will be hastened in his time, which is always the more convenient season. God will work when he pleases, how he pleases, and by what means he pleases. He is not bound to keep our time, but he will perform his work, honor our faith, and reward them that diligently seek him.

Though it may seem overdue, righteousness is always rewarded. Don't be impatient with God. He'll never forget to reward your efforts for Him.

When we surrender to His timing, He does mighty things in and for us, according to His will and His timing. God acts on behalf of those who wait for Him.

The trouble is that I'm in a hurry, but God isn't.

In time comes he whom God sends.

Waiting on God means increasing purity.

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

Patience is tied very closely to faith in our Heavenly Father. Actually, when we are unduly impatient, we are suggesting that we know what is best—better than does God. Or, at least, we are asserting that our timetable is better than His. We can grow in faith only if we are willing to wait patiently for God's purposes and patterns to unfold in our lives, on His timetable.

When we read of the great Biblical leaders, we see that it was not uncommon for God to ask them to wait, not just a day or two, but for years, until God was ready for them to act.

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.

Be patient. Let God answer your question on His schedule, not yours.

God's delay's are not His denials

God's ways seem dark, but, soon or late, They touch the shining hills of day; The evil cannot brook delay, The good can well afford to wait, Give ermined knaves their hour of crime; Yet have the future grand and great, The safe appeal of Truth to Time!