The Wait Quotes

“When we chase the high of instant gratification, we make choices that for many reasons are irresponsible and based on poor reasoning . . . or no reasoning at all. It takes time and self-control to take in information, let people reveal their true character, be consistent and disciplined, and give conflicts time to work themselves out. Delaying gratification means working at becoming more self-aware and humble enough to admit that our first impulses aren’t always smart ones. Let”
― DeVon Franklin, The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love

“Making sure that each of us ends up with the people we are meant to be with is important to the Lord, so He takes His time making sure that the circumstances are right.”
― DeVon Franklin, The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love

“until you know and love yourself, it’s hard to find anyone else to love you the way you deserve. The practice of waiting—choosing to wait for sex and denying instant gratification so that you can see clearly, make better decisions, and position yourself for blessings—is the key to finding not just happiness but spirit-deep fulfillment. We live in a culture addicted to the quick hookup, the miracle cure, and the overnight sensation. The Wait is the remedy for that addiction.”
― DeVon Franklin, The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love

“Home is about the person more than the place. Our marriage is our home, and it fills us back up when the world drains us.”
― DeVon Franklin, The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love

“Change is always difficult, which is why people so often retreat into the familiar even when the familiar is awful and depressing. That’s why we get back together with our exes even if things ended the last time in screaming and broken glass. It’s why we go out with the same friends even when we know they bring out the worst in us. We crave familiarity,”
― DeVon Franklin, The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love

“we wanted God’s very best for our lives, collectively and individually, and we wanted it in whatever way He intended. This required patience.”
― DeVon Franklin, The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love

“Unconditional love means accepting someone for who they are now, not who you hope they will be one day. People”
― DeVon Franklin, The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love

“Trust God from the bottom of your heart; don’t try to figure out everything on your own. Listen for God’s voice in everything you do, everywhere you go; He’s the one who will keep you on track”
― Meagan Good, The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love

“Waiting gives you better knowledge of your partner. When you’re not blinded by lust”
― DeVon Franklin, The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love

“Waiting helps you think clearly. Sex clouds judgment and gives rise to self-delusions. One of the big reasons our relationship is so strong today is that when we were dating, we couldn’t fall back on sex when talking got tough. When you’re seeking God and you’re focused on whatever you’re supposed to be doing, you see yourself and the other person clearly. Our intimacy was about conversation, connection, friendship, and falling in love with each other without it having to be about sex.”
― DeVon Franklin, The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love

“a meaningful life’s purpose—becomes truly possible. You grow into someone of greater wisdom, discernment, self-awareness, compassion, and empathy, and it’s incredible how everything falls into place. It’s as though God was always just around the corner, waiting to bless you when you found your way onto the right path.”
― DeVon Franklin, The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love

“You grow into someone of greater wisdom, discernment, self-awareness, compassion, and empathy, and it’s incredible how everything falls into place. It’s as though God was always just around the corner, waiting to bless you when you found your way onto the right path.”
― DeVon Franklin, The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love

“way to quell that restlessness and weakness of faith long enough to stop and pay attention, they’ll see God work wonders in their lives.”
― DeVon Franklin, The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love

“Programmed to be stubbornly self-reliant, men rebel against the notion that waiting will allow God to bring them what they want. Either that, or they don’t feel worthy of what God’s got in mind, so they go out and make their own “life.” Career, possessions, and sex will not bring peace. Love, purpose, connection, joy—those are things only God can bring us, and for him to do that, we’ve got to slow down long enough to see what’s in our path. Men crave motion; waiting requires being still and listening. If men can find a”
― DeVon Franklin, The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love

“or the counterfeit intimacy that can come with premarital sex, you can see the person you’re dating for who they are.”
― DeVon Franklin, The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love

“how God does what He does.”
― DeVon Franklin, The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love

“Waiting honors God’s timing and methods. The way God brings you a person can be as important as the person. It’s important to have clarity of thought so you can see”
― DeVon Franklin, The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love

“The Wait is one of the most powerful tools you’ll ever have for getting what you really want out of life because it creates the path for you to become the best version of yourself. When this happens, getting what you want most out of life—the love of your life, a wonderful family, a prosperous career, and”
― DeVon Franklin, The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love

“The self-esteem of western women is founded on physical being (body mass index, youth, beauty). This creates a tricky emphasis on image, but the internalized locus of self-worth saves lives. Western men are very different. In externalizing the source of their self-esteem, they surrender all emotional independence. (Conquest requires two parties, after all.) A man cannot feel like a man without a partner, corporation, team. Manhood is a game played on the terrain of opposites. It thus follows that male sense of self disintegrates when the Other is absent.”
― DeVon Franklin, The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love

“A physical-spiritual concussion, like a jolt of electricity to the heart. It was like something from a rom-com script so cliché-ridden that it gets sent to turnaround (the film industry term for a project that a film studio decides not to develop further).”
― DeVon Franklin, The Wait: A Powerful Practice for Finding the Love of Your Life and the Life You Love