Quotes About Patience

Such faults, you must work to overcome in yourselves....But treasure them in each other, if you can. These failings, they're part of the people we love. They make us human, and the more they are loved, the more you look on them with compassion and patience, the less they nip at your heels and make problems in your life together.

There's two times of year for me: Football season, and waiting for football season.

Who understands the thrill of seeing the first bright flowers of spring so clearly as one who has just lived through the long, hard winter?

With God beside us every moment of the day, we are safe—even when bad things happen, even when God's timing is not our timing. He is our refuge.

Even when we are confused and struggle, if we will only stay in the conversation with God, He will take us where we need to go.

Our obedience to God will not always achieve the results we want, but our ultimate call is not to be successful, but to be faithful!

Don't be quick to get angry, because anger is typical of fools" (Ecclesiastes 7:9). But Paul points out it is possible to be angry without sin when he says, "Be angry without sinning" (Ephesians 4:26).

God is already in your next season, holding open the door and waiting for you to arrive. You might not know where you are headed, but He does—and that's where you have to keep your focus. Philippians

There is no substitute for time. Giving time is giving life to others.

Even if today you feel completely unsure that things will work out, keep the faith. God is faithful to His promises.

You may not see the fruit of your labors instantly, but God himself notices and resides over every seed you are sowing. You are getting through. You are unstoppable.

As Henry G. Felsen, a humorist and no medical authority, pointed out quite a while ago, proper treatment will cure a cold in seven days, but left to itself a cold will hang on for a week.

Given time, a cold will cure itself.

I've said my patience is not infinite.

Reversed Thunder," as the poet George Herbert put it. "Reversed Thunder" -- the coming of judgement in response to the cry, "How long, O Lord?

I don't count on the boy who waits till October, when it's cool and fun, then decides he wants to play.

I never have planned a whole lot of future. It's one day at a time.

Don't say yes until I finish talking.

Go with the flow always. Don't push the river.

For me, the worst part of playing golf, by far, has always been hitting the ball

Experts agree that the best type of computer for your individual needs is one that comes on the market about two days after you actually purchase some other computer.

Fishing is boring, unless you catch an actual fish, and then it is disgusting.

Entire new continents can emerge from the ocean in the time it takes for a Web page to show up on your screen. Contrary to what you may have heard, the Internet does not operate at the speed of light; it operates at the speed of the Department of Motor Vehicles.

It is inhumane, in my opinion, to force people who have a genuine medical need for coffee to wait in line behind people who apparently view it as some kind of recreational activity.