Quotes About Patience

The time has come to claim your true vocation—to be a father who can welcome his children home without asking them any questions and without wanting anything from them in return. Look at the father in your painting and you will know who you are called to be.

No tengo que esperar a que todo vaya bien, sino que puedo celebrar cada pequeño indicio que me dice que el reino está cerca (124)

Don't be afraid. Don't run off. Trust that Christ will be born in that place.

The friend who can be silent with us in a moment of despair or confusion, who can stay with us in an hour of grief and bereavement, who can tolerate not knowing... not healing, not curing... that is a friend who cares.

Waiting is a dry desert between where we are and where we want to be. (Finding My Way Home)

It is hard to bear with people who stand still along the way, lose heart, and seek their happiness in little pleasures which they cling to...You feel sad about all that self-indulgence and self-satisfaction, for you know with an indestructible certainty that something greater is coming.

Most people carrying heavy loads begin to doubt themselves & their own worth. We lighten their loads as we are patient with their weaknesses & celebrate whatever goodness we can see in them. The Lord does that.

If God wants to give you more than you are asking, would you rather have what you are asking or what God wants to give?

If we will be quiet and ready enough, we shall find compensation in every disappointment.

When we are unhurried and wise, we perceive that only great and worthy things have any permanent and absolute existence, that petty fears and petty pleasures are but the shadow of the reality.

Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come and sit on your shoulder.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait until that other is ready, and it may be a long time before they get off.

Time is but the stream I go a-fishing in

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life?

Not that the story need be long, but it will take a long while to make it short." [ Letter to Harrison Blake ; November 16, 1857]

We must learn to reawaken and keep ourselves awake, not by mechanical aids, but by an infinite expectation of the dawn, which does not forsake us in our soundest sleep.

I have great faith in a seed. Convince me that you have a seed there, and I am prepared to expect wonders.

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry.

The more slowly trees grow at first, the sounder they are at the core, and I think the same is true of human beings.

The man who goes alone can start today; but he who travels with another must wait till that other is ready.

Happiness is like a butterfly; the more you chase it, the more it will elude you, but if you turn your attention to other things, it will come and sit comfortably on your shoulder.

We must look for a long time before we can see.

The greatest gains and values are farthest from being appreciated.

We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.