Quotes About Patience

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Religion must be defended not by killing but by dying, not by violence but by patience.

This, the Christians believed, was God's work and not theirs. So they did not engage in frantic action to save those who were not baptized; instead they entrusted the outsiders to God. The church, patiently, also entrusted itself to God, who would bring people into "the community of saints participating in truth" by the arduous means of catechesis and baptism.

In this chapter and the next, I will contend that the Christians' habitus was formed patiently, unhurriedly, through careful catechesis as well as through the communities' reflexive behavior, and that it was renewed in the regular worship of the Christian assemblies.

As Cyprian puts it near the start of his treatise, "We know virtues by their practice rather than through boasting of them."71 If patience is not good in the lived experience of humans, it isn't worth talking about.72

I must warn you," he says. Whatever persecutions the Christians have experienced, and whether it has been Jews or pagans or heretics who have mistreated them, Christians must not avenge themselves. Cyprian places himself among them: "We should not hasten to revenge their pain with an angry speed.

While people brood, time skips ahead without looking back.

Who would fare better in this world of fitful time? Those who have seen the future and live only one life? Or those who have not seen the future and wait to live life? Or those who deny the future and live two lives?

Try and hang on," said Dad. "Just a few more minutes… We're almost at the—" Bertie was sick.

Just a few more minutes… We're almost at the—

Someday When we are wiser When the world's older When we have learned I pray Someday we may yet Live To live and let live Someday Life will be fairer Need will be rarer Greed will not pay Godspeed This bright millennium On its way Let it come Someday

Patience is about responsibility—for your emotional response to situations, and for the situations themselves. Wait—and be saved like a bird from a snare; Hurry, and usher your soul to despair. —YOSEF QIMHI (C. 1160–1235)

After the greatest clouds, the sun.

The conception of two people living together for twenty-five years without having a cross word suggests a lack of spirit only to be admired in sheep.

It takes but a moment to make a convert; it takes a lifetime to manufacture a saint.

Bless those who persecute you; bless and do not curse. —ROMANS 12:14

Can you imagine getting hit with all that bad news at one time? What's even more amazing is Job's response. He responded by mourning his losses, worshipping and praising God, and not blaming God for his calamities! No wonder God trusted him so much!

God works things out on his timetable to bring the best results for us too.

The race is not always to the swift." "Nor the battle to the strong.

an actor friend of mine calls the 'John Wayne status.' " "What's that?" The question brought a small smile to her face. "Wayne never performed until he finished his morning's business. Usually, he was regular. But every so often, he was stymied. Sometimes there would be hundreds of people on the set milling about for hours, waiting for one man to have a bowel movement.

Life has . taught me not to expect success to be the inevitable result of my endeavors. She taught me to seek sustenance from the endeavor itself, but to leave the result to God.

I have no patience at all.

Once, we built structures entirely from the most durable substances we knew: granite block, for instance. The results are still around today to admire, but we don't often emulate them, because quarrying, cutting, transporting, and fitting stone require a patience we no longer possess.

Los llaneros son reservados con la gente que acaban de conocer —le respondió el médico—. Ten paciencia.