Quotes About Patience

It is a waste of energy to be angry with a man who behaves badly, just as it is to be angry with a car that won't go.

A sense of duty is useful in work but offensive in personal relations. People wish to be liked, not to be endured with patient resignation.

a generation that cannot endure boredom will be a generation of little men, of men unduly divorced from the slow process of nature, of men in whom every vital impulse slowly withers as though they were cut flowers in a vase.

The world is full of magical things patiently waiting for our wits to grow sharper.

a certain amount of boredom is...essential to a happy life

To endure uncertainity is difficult, but so are most of the other virtues.

Draw significant conclusions slowly.

In a hopeful age, great present evils can be endured, because it is thought that they will pass; but in a tired age even real goods lose their savour.

I have found, for example, that, if I have to write upon some rather difficult topic, the best plan is to think about it with very great intensity – the greatest intensity of which I am capable—for a few hours or days, and at the end of that time give orders, so to speak, that the work is to proceed underground. After some months I return consciously to the topic and find that the work has been done.

Only impatience prompts the belief in the possibility of sudden improvement.

He loved her! Despite it all, he still loved her! He was willing to wait!

Elizabeth Tudor weakly squeezed Valentina's fingers. She said, "Tell that woman I shall be waiting for her." Then she closed her eyes and slept again.

work and hope. But never hope more than you work.

the character of a dwelling, like that of a man, grows slowly.

Sometimes you have to forgive the process, knowing that the outcome is for the best.

Often when God does not readily give us what we want, it is because He knows what our desire would cost us. Faith sometimes means forgoing our desires because we trust Christ to have a better plan for our lives.

A big difference exists between trying to manipulate God to give us what we want and cooperating with God so He can give us what He wants.

Trying to know God and serve Him before we come to love Him is exhausting.

We have no idea how busy God's hands are even when His mouth seems closed. Where God is concerned, silence never equals slumber.

The doubter is like the surging sea, driven and tossed by the wind. That person should not expect to receive anything from the Lord. James 1:6–7

I don't believe God allows surrendered hearts to continue to long for things He will not ultimately grant in one way or another. Our disappointment with God is often the result of our small thinking.

powerful motivation for believing God in our present is intentionally remembering how He's worked in our past.

Had you been a spectator during only the first three days of creation, you might not have judged it as good. What good are seed-bearing plants with no sun for photosynthesis? In His wisdom God knew the work was good because He knew what was coming next. He knows what's coming next for you. That's why He can judge His work in you as good. Give God room to be completely creative. Meet with Him daily as He unfolds the plan in perfect order. He's really good at what He does.

O, Lord, You have made everything beautiful in Your time. You have also set eternity in the hearts of men; yet we cannot fathom what You have done from beginning to end. (Eccles. 3:11)