Seasons of Waiting Quotes

“Waiting exposes our idols and throws a wrench into our coping mechanisms. It brings us to the end of what we can control and forces us to cry out to God. God doesn't waste our waiting. He uses it to conform us to the image of his Son.”
― Betsy Childs Howard, Seasons of Waiting: Walking by Faith When Dreams Are Delayed

“If you hope in God though your dream is unfulfilled, you walk by faith and not by sight. If you praise God when your dream comes true and you look beyond that dream to an even better fulfillment, you show yourself to be a citizen of heaven.”
― Betsy Childs Howard, Seasons of Waiting: Walking by Faith When Dreams Are Delayed

“Someone who lives with unmet desires is uniquely able to identify with and comfort others who live with unmet desires, even if their longings are of a different sort. If we wait to reach out to others from a position of fullness, we will never do it. If, on the other hand, we love others out of our own emptiness, we will—paradoxically—find we have an abundance of love to give.”
― Betsy Childs Howard, Seasons of Waiting: Walking by Faith When Dreams Are Delayed