J. C. Ryle Quotes

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.

I believe the prayers of 30 years ago are not lost. We may not see the results of our labour or sacrifice immediately, but in due time they will produce much fruit.

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

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?

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.

Many times, we miss out on God's best because we give up too soon. We don't realize how close we are to victory.

God's delays are not God's denials.

Everything comes in time to those who can wait.

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.

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

Patient endurance permits us to cling to our faith in the Lord and our faith in His timing when we are being tossed about by the surf of circumstance. Even when a seeming undertow grasps us, somehow, in the tumbling, we are being carried forward, though battered and bruised.

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.

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

That goes with the saying that you call on God a lot of times and you pray for things and it may not happen at that moment.

When God gives you a vision and darkness follows, wait. God will bring the vision He has given you to reality in your life if you will wait on His timing. Never try to help God fulfill His word

Waiting is the hardest work of hope.

Your father, Jo. He never loses patience, never doubts or complains, but always hopes, and works and waits so cheerfully that one is ashamed to do otherwise before him.

Every God-given vision will become real if we will only have patience.

Let us learn to be patient in the days of darkness, if we know anything of vital union with Christ.