Quotes About Patience

The spiritual path is very, very easy for a man of determination, patience, endurance, self-sacrifice, dispassion and a strong will.

if you have a strong power of endurance, patience and fine health, if your dispassion is intense and of a sustained type and if you are willing to do some selfless service to mankind, you need not worry about money.

That's one thing I like about God. That old boy just never asked me to do nothin' He knows I can't. He always says, 'Hey Millie! You do this thing and I'll be helpin' ya all the way there.

went back to her crossword puzzle - still looking for a five-letter word that meant "to believe in something without evidence". She sat down in the old wooden rocker. She was patient; it would come to her – in time – in the Lord's good time. She closed her eyes, and she rocked.

It's going to be okay, child. You're going to make it. God does everything for a reason, leaves nothing to chance, does it all, plans it all, all with purpose, all with meaning, all with love, all with care, all with . . . " The old man hesitated a moment and his smile broadened. "And if there's one thing I've learned in my 93 years on this little clump of dirt, God does it with wonderful style and timing. In His way and in His time.

God doesn't come with handles, little one. He doesn't want to be controlled and thrown down the alley every time for a perfect strike. Life's not like that and neither is God. You will never totally understand God, and He will never spoon feed you with all the answers about life. Some things you just have to figure out for yourself, others, He will show you in due time. In His way and in His time.

Reality can wait.

A man who wants time to read and write must let the grass grow long.

A man who wants time to read and write lets the grass grow long.

I hope to one day co-sign a lease with another person but, well, it doesn't plague me that I have yet to do so. Put it this way: I've never had to violently tug at my own pillow at 2 A.M. to get myself to stop snoring.

Go to the ant, thou sluggard, learn to live, and by her busy ways, reform thine own.

For want of self-restraint many men are engaged all their lives in fighting with difficulties of their own making, and rendering success impossible by their own cross-grained ungentleness; whilst others, it may be much less gifted, make their way and achieve success by simple patience, equanimity, and self-control.

These times of waiting on God for the fullness of the Spirit are times when He searches the heart and tests the mind (Jer. 17:10).

Possess patience to such an extent that you can suffer anything for the church, for your friends, for your neighbors, or for anyone. Remember this: we build character in others as our character is built. As we are pure in our thoughts, are tender and gracious to other people, and possess our souls in patience (Luke 21:19), then people have a great desire for our fellowship in the Holy Spirit.

Charlie And I'd really like to kiss you, but that's not a good idea, because then we'd start kissing on the couch, and then we'd start kissing on the bed, and I don't wanna rush into spending the night together. Harriet I'd love to spend the night together. Charlie I have no problem with that

Call no man unhappy until he is married

Our prayers should be for blessings in general, for God knows best what is good for us.

Be slow to fall into friendship but when thou art in, continue firm and constant.

Be slow to fall into friendship, but when you are in, continue firm and constant.

Those who are hardest to love need it the most.

There is no solution; seek it lovingly

Those who are the hardest to love are the ones who need it most.

As a Tibetan saying goes: "Tomorrow or the next life—which comes first, we never know.

with time, patience, discipline, and the right training, our mind will begin to unknot itself and know its essential bliss and clarity.