So many of us are going through seasons of waiting.

We are waiting on God for breakthrough in our health, in our finances, careers and relationships.

Some of us are waiting for a loved one to be healed.

While we wait, we need all the encouragement we can get to keep hope alive and to continue to abide.

We shared 27 Inspirational Scriptures About Waiting on God in a recent post and today we want to share more resources to help us in the wait.

Many pastors, speakers and authors have covered this topic over the years and many more likely will.

Below are just 25 quotes we’ve found to deepen our perspective about waiting on God.

Use them for reflection, as prayer points and for further discussion amongst your peers.

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25 Waiting On God Quotes

“Waiting on God requires the willingness to bear uncertainty, to carry within oneself the unanswered question, lifting the heart to God about it whenever it intrudes upon one’s thoughts.”

~Elisabeth Elliot (Passion and Purity: Learning To Live Your Love Life Under Christ’s Control)

“But sometimes God delays His blessings to examine what’s in your heart. He waits…on purpose. It’s not that He doesn’t want to bless you, but He’s after a purpose greater than your immediate blessing. God doesn’t want to just fix your problems, He wants to transform you in the process.”

~ Tony Evans

“The only thing harder than waiting on God, is wishing that you had!”

~ Steven Furtick

“Sometimes when we’re waiting for God to speak, He’s waiting for us to listen.”

~ Martha Bolton

“Waiting for the Lord in a season of darkness should not be a time of inactivity. We should do what we can do. And doing is often God’s appointed remedy for despair.”

~ John Piper

Waiting is not the same as inactivity. Waiting is a commitment to continue in obedience until God speaks.

~ Priscilla Shirer (Awaken – 90 Days With The God Who Speaks)

“You can save a lot of time waiting on God.”

~ Adrian Rogers

“Most of us use ‘I’m waiting for God to reveal His calling on my life’ as a means of avoiding action.  Did you hear God calling you to sit in front of the television yesterday?  Or to go on your last vacation?  Or exercise this morning?  Probably not, but you still did it.  The point isn’t that vacations or exercise are wrong, but that we are quick to rationalize our entertainment and priorities yet are slow to commit to serving  God.”

~ Francis Chan (Crazy Love)

“When faced with a decision, many people say they are waiting for God. But I understand, in most cases, God is waiting for me.”

~ Andy Andrews

“Perhaps our inactivity is not so much waiting on God as it is an expression of the fear of man, the love of the praise of man, and disbelief in God’s providence.”

~ Kevin DeYoung

I do not know why there is this difference, but I am sure that God keeps no one waiting unless He sees that it is good for him to wait. When you do enter your room, you will find that the long wait has done you some kind of good which you would not have had otherwise. But you must regard it as waiting, not as camping. You must keep on praying for light: and of course, even in the hall, you must begin trying to obey the rules which are common to the whole house. And above all you must be asking which door is the true one; not which pleases you best by its paint and paneling.

~ C.S. Lewis  (Mere Christianity)

“Wait on the Lord” is a constant refrain in the Psalms, and it is a necessary word, for God often keeps us waiting. He is not in such a hurry as we are, and it is not his way to give more light on the future than we need for action in the present, or to guide us more than one step at a time. When in doubt, do nothing, but continue to wait on God. When action is needed, light will come.

~ J.I. Packer  (Knowing God)

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

~ Charles Spurgeon

If the Lord Jehovah makes us wait, let us do so with our whole hearts; for blessed are all they that wait for Him. He is worth waiting for. The waiting itself is beneficial to us: it tries faith, exercises patience, trains submission, and endears the blessing when it comes. The Lord’s people have always been a waiting people.

~ Charles Spurgeon

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.

~ A.W. Tozer

The people of God are not merely to mark time, waiting for God to step in and set right all that is wrong. Rather, they are to model the new heaven and new earth, and by so doing awaken longings for what God will someday bring to pass.

~ Phillip Yancey

Second only to suffering, waiting may be the greatest teacher and trainer in godliness, maturity, and genuine spirituality most of us ever encounter.

– Richard Hendrix

Faith is a way of waiting—never quite knowing, never quite hearing or seeing, because in the darkness we are all but a little lost. There is doubt hard on the heels of every belief, fear hard on the heels of every hope.

– Fredrick Buechner

God doesn’t call the qualified; He qualifies the called. If you wait until you’re ready, you’ll be waiting for the rest of your life.

~ Mark Batterson (The Circle Maker: Praying Circles Around Your Biggest Dreams and Fears)

God works through our waiting to strengthen our character through weakness, to develop our peace of mind by trusting him in chaos, and to teach us that we can glorify him just as much by waiting on him as we can by serving him.

~ Wayne Stiles

Those who wait for God are pilgrim souls that have no tie that will hold them when the definite command is issued; no prejudices that will paralyze their effort when in some strange coming of the light they are commanded to take a pathway entirely different to that which was theirs before; having no interests either temporal or eternal, either material or mental or spiritual, that will conflict with the will of God when that will is made known.

~ G. Campbell Morgan

In the gaps, waits, and journeys of life, especially the traumatic and tragic ones, there will likely be many things, which we do not understand. We have been given permission to live with mystery, and to know that faithfulness is always rewarded, even if we do not reach what we believed was our destination. After all, the father of our faith, Abraham, appears to be given that title more as a result of the journey than an arrival at a destination.

~ Paul Manwaring

He may delay because it would not be safe to give us at once what we ask: we are not ready for it. To give ere we could truly receive, would be to destroy the very heart and hope of prayer, to cease to be our Father. The delay itself may work to bring us nearer to our help, to increase the desire, perfect the prayer, and ripen the receptive condition.

~ George Macdonald

“Perhaps our inactivity is not so much waiting on God as it is an expression of the fear of man, the love of the praise of man, and disbelief in God’s providence.”

~ Kevin DeYoung (Just Do Something: A Liberating Approach To Finding God’s Will)

I hope someday that God can explain some of the delays to us……but I’m convinced that one of the things He is teaching me, and all of us, is perseverance. In this day and age of everything being “instant” – we can forget what it means to persevere. Perseverance is one of the ways of God that are found all through the Word. It’s an important character trait for us to have in our walk with the Lord. Being willing to persevere in prayer, and in other ways, is often a test for us.

~ Sally McClung

Waiting On God Playlist

We have a playlist to complement these quotes as well.

Check it out and enjoy.

Also, here’s a free download of bible verses about waiting on God.

We pray you never forget that in your waiting, do not despair. We serve an ever-present God who loves and cares us and holds us in the palm of His hands.

Til next time…

Stay Blessed Friends.