Neal A. Maxwell Quotes

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.

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.

One thing about God's will, you can never see God's will before it happens. You can only see at the end of it.

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.

God never does anything wrong. He knows what is best for me. No man can understand God, or know why He deals with us as He does.

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.

God makes everything in perfect time, and he doesn't give you anything you can't handle.

You pray for things, and you know, we all have our wishlists, but I've learned to pray for whatever's in your will.

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.

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.

Don't ask God to cram His plan into your puny little mind, because then God would be limited by your understanding.

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

God is God. He knows what he is doing. When you can’t trace his hand, trust his heart.

Faith in God includes Faith in God's timing.

"Americans do not presume to equate God's purposes with any purpose of our own...."[Prayer] teaches us to trust, to accept that God's plan unfolds in his time, not our own.

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

Delays are as much a part of God plan as answered prayers. God wants you to trust him.

God's ways and His will come in His own perfect time.

I'm practicing a kind of meandering faith, or faithful meandering. I just trust that something is coming. I don't know what it is. But I've been a straphanger all my life; I know what it's like to not know when the next train is coming, but I trust the subway.

Order is manifestly maintained in the universe... governed by the sovereign will of God.

I do know this: God does answer your prayers, but it's not always in the way you expect. God knows what's best for us, though, so there's no need to worry when things don't go how we originally wanted them to go.

What God chooses for us children of men is always the best.

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