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Quotes About Long-suffering

The overwhelming message of the Atonement is the perfect love the Savior has for each and all of us. It is a love which is full of mercy, patience, grace, equity, long-suffering, and, above all, forgiving.
~ James E. Faust
Without patience, you will never conquer endurance.
~ Yiannis Kouros
In the Bible, the race of life is never considered from the viewpoint of speed... We are to run it with patience.
~ Aiden Wilson Tozer
Love is not all that is required in a relationship. It needs understanding, openness, kidness, patience, long-suffering
~ Iyanla Vanzant
We are puzzled and bewildered whenever we see suffering in this world because we have become accustomed to the mercy and the long-suffering of God. Amazing grace is no longer amazing to us.
~ R. C. Sproul
Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.
~ Ignatius of Antioch
It is nothing short of a transformed vision of reality that is able to see Christ as more real than the storm, love more real than hatred, meakness more real than pride, long-suffering more real than annoyance, holiness more real than sin. - Discipline
~ Elisabeth Elliot
Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?
~ George Eliot
If the French Government had deliberately intended to inflict further torment and loss on their long-suffering soldiers they could hardly have done better than appoint General Nivelle to the post of Commander-in-Chief.
~ Robin Neillands
There's always soma to give you a holiday form the facts. And there's always soma to calm your anger, to reconcile you to your enemies, to make you patient and long-suffering. In the past you could only accomplish these things by making a great effort and after years of hard moral training.
~ Aldous Huxley
For this reason, let us put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and long-suffering. Let us prove our Christlikeness, not only in our zeal for saving the lost, but also openly in all our interactions with the brethren, by being tolerant and forgiving one another, even as the Lord forgave us
~ Andrew Murray
He has learnt that in putting on the Lord Jesus he has put on the heart of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, and long-suffering. Jesus has taken the place of self, and it is not an impossibility to forgive as Jesus
~ Andrew Murray
Therefore, let us put on a heart of compassion, kindness, humility, meekness, long-suffering; and let us prove our Christlikeness not only in our zeal for saving the lost but also in our relationships with others—forbearing and forgiving one another, even as the Lord forgave us. Let
~ Andrew Murray
The fruit of the Spirit is love." Mark the words,—love, not hatred; it is joy, not discontent and mourning; peace, not irritation, anxiety and manufactured trials. It is "long-suffering gentleness, goodness, faith, meekness, temperance: against such there is no law."…
~ EGW Comments
I have a long fuse.
~ Katherine Jenkins
Surely there was something taught her by this experience of great need; and she must be learning a secret of human tenderness and long-suffering, that the less erring could hardly know?
~ George Eliot
Man is to represent Christ. He is to be long-suffering toward his fellow men, to be patient, forgiving, and full of Christlike love. He who is truly converted will manifest respect for his brethren; he will do as Christ has commanded. Jesus said, "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another. By this shall all men know that ye are my disciples, if ye have love one to another" (
~ Ellen G. White
A challenge is a test of time, overcoming a challenge is a sign of strength or resilience. On the other hand, long-suffering (bearing problems, insults or annoyance patiently) is nothing else but a proof of an unwavering faith (firm relying trust) in God (almighty). ~Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
People so staunch and true, they're fixated, Shining with self-regard like polished stones. And their whole life spent admiring themselves For their own long-suffering. Licking their wounds And flashing them around like decorations. I hate it, I always hated it, and I am A part of it myself.
~ Seamus Heaney
It's not just that there are two sides to every dispute. It's that each side sincerely believes its version of the story, namely that it is an innocent and long-suffering victim and the other side a malevolent and treacherous sadist.
~ Steven Pinker
Patience wins the race.
~ Bernard Barton
To hope and trust in the Lord requires faith, patience, humility, meekness, long-suffering, keeping the commandments and enduring to the end.
~ Robert D. Hales
Lothar, the agency's long-suffering cat, a cranky black-and-white mongrel named Lothar, came over and rubbed against my leg.
~ Stona Fitch
Clare knew that she loved him—every curve of her form showed that—but he did not know at that time the full depth of her devotion, its single-mindedness, its meekness; what long-suffering it guaranteed, what honesty, what endurance, what good faith.
~ Thomas Hardy