Quotes About Patience

Whether we like it or not, God intends to give us what we need, not what we now think we want

Sometimes it takes me days or weeks to get something clear in my head on what I want to do. Everything is in steps. One thing leads to another.

Slow down you're doing fine You can't be everything you want to be before your time.

17Remember, it is better to suffer for doing good, if that is what God wants, than to suffer for doing wrong!

restraint and self-control. We restrain our impulsive desires even as we feel the discomfort of putting off instant gratification and maintaining control of our lives.

In truth, Lincoln tried not to carry personal resentments. "A man has not time to spend half his life in quarrels," he said.

tempers the wind to the shorn lamb,' or in other words, that He renders the worst of human conditions tolerable, while He permits the best, to be nothing better than tolerable.

Edit until your fingers bleed, then take a few deep breaths and edit some more...

He took refuge in the concept that sometimes slowest is the fastest in the end.

Most people tire of a lecture in 10 minutes, clever people can do it in 5. Sensible people never go to lectures at all.

inwehnsdysk]ifhsnmcpew,m.sa Time and tide wait for no man. Clearly, there is a qualitative difference

She wasn't bitter. She was sad, though. But it was a hopeful kind of sad. The kind of sad that just takes time.

4. Next comes a principle that I've discovered in my own life: "Once you do begin to get clarity, wait to act until you have at least a kernel of inner certitude." Wait to

Abandonment to Divine Providence. Translated and Introduced by John Beevers. Image Books: New York, 1975

All of the Eastern contemplative traditions stumbled onto this brilliant principle: When difficulties arise, give yourself to them.

wretched existence Ã¢â'¬Â¦ Patience, they say, is what I must now choose for my guide, and I have done so—Perhaps I shall get better, perhaps not; I am ready.—Forced to become a philosopher already in my twenty-eighth year.—Divine One, thou seest my inmost soul; thou knowest that therein dwells the love of mankind and the desire to do good Ã¢â'¬Â¦

I asked Carlson what he did in those early years to get people's buy-in. Carlson says he included everyone but he worked mainly with the early adopters. "You never get a 100 percent," he says. "We focused on the people who wanted to work this way. You can't convert everyone on day one. That takes years.

Trying to remember you is like carrying water in my hands a long distance across sand. Somewhere people are waiting. They have drunk nothing for days.

I love what's left after love has been tested.

That is why enduring to the end is the fifth principle of the gospel. Daily, our question shouldn't be "Have I made it to the kingdom yet?" but rather, "Do I still want to stay?

That had been his secret Indian Trick to hunting, back then: to not hunt. The same way you never find your wallet when you're actually looking for it. Just, keep a rifle with you.

What he didn't say was that you don't get cold-resistant because your jackets suck, you just stop complaining about it after a while, because complaining doesn't make you any warmer.

People won't have time for you if you are always angry or complaining.

I'm not afraid of death, but I'm in no hurry to die. I have so much I want to do first.