Quotes About Patience

Great works are often quiet works.

What might our lives feel like if we didn't march through them with a scorecard, keeping a tally of our failures and successes? How would it be to stop pretending omniscience? Can you imagine being able to trust that the outcome of your efforts will be right, whatever the outcome? Even when it looks as though every effort is marked with failure?

When things go awry, if they are mostly an inconvenience to you or a threat to your ego, instead of getting furious, can you laugh? Sometimes the even the best-laid plans, the most carefully planned events can turn out quite differently than planned.

Can you surrender to the future that God has in store for you?

As my sister tells her children, "You have two ears and one mouth for a reason: listening is more important than talking.

Let the Great Shepherd lead; and by winding ways not without green pastures and still waters, we shall rise insensibly, and reach the tops of the everlasting hills, where the winds are cool and the sight is glorious.

Some things in this world just ain't mean to be, not in the times we want 'em to, and the heart has to hold it in this world as a remembrance, a promise for the world that's to come. There's a prize at the end of all of it, but still, that's a heavy load to bear.

It cannot rain all the time...

The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet.

Since the attempt to control nature is at its heart the attempt to control other persons, we can expect societies to be less patient with those cultures which express some degree of indifference to societal goals and values. It is this repeated parallel that brings us to see that the society that creates natural waste creates human waste.

They must wait. The gates were closed. The keys that could open them were in other hands.

Here's the thing about digging in January: it's a lousy idea. The ground was as hard as a surprise math quiz. But not quite as much fun.

I ran my fingers through my hair. We'd been together for nearly twenty minutes, and I still didn't know what he was talking about. "Sit here," I told Bigs. "And don't chew on the furniture while I'm gone.

None arrives at the races, purchases Daily Racing Form, and within minutes begins to play.

Words do nothing against them in the short term, so we bow to the storm winds and wait. We wait, and we have faith.

A Horseman should know neither fear, nor anger.

Who breaks the thread, the one who pulls, the one who holds on?

Blessed is the man that trusteth in the Lord, and whose hope the Lord is. For he shall be as a tree planted by the waters, and that spreadeth out her roots by the river, and shall not see when heat cometh, but her leaf shall be green; and shall not be careful in the year of drought, neither shall cease from yielding fruit.

rather may be cured.

JAMES 1:2-4 My brethren, count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations; knowing this, that the trying of your faith worketh patience. But let patience have her perfect work, that ye may be perfect and entire, wanting nothing.

Many more Mondays, many more games.

Not only can filmmaking be expensive, but it's also extremely time consuming, and you can't buy time.

Our journey is about faith. Faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. Not the proving of such things.

Too early…too late. A last message to live in the present. To accept the past and not rush the future.