Quotes About Patience

Aunque no tuviera yo el mar y la playa, permanecería aquí mientras tú no te fueras.

When you expect the world to end at any moment, you know there is no need to hurry. You take your time, you do your work well.

Hurry ruins saints as well as artists.

We have what we seek. We don't have to rush after it. It was there all the time, and if we give it time it will make itself known to us.

There is always a temptation to diddle around in the contemplative life, making itsy-bitsy statues.

What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves.

We are united to Him in darkness, because we have to hope.

We are not perfectly free until we live in pure hope. For when our hope is pure, it no longer trusts exclusively in human and visible means, nor rests in any visible end. He who hopes in God trusts God, Whom he never sees, to bring him to the possession of things that are beyond imagination.

If you persist in trying To attain what is never attained (It is Tao's gift!) If you persist in making effort To obtain what effort cannot get; If you persist in reasoning About what cannot be understood, You will be destroyed By the very thing you seek.

Bonum est praestolari cum silentio salutare Dei.

Place no hope in the feeling of assurance, in spiritual comfort. You may well have to get along without this.

Consequently, the truth of God lives in our souls more by the power of superior moral courage than by the light of an eminent intelligence. Indeed, spiritual intelligence itself depends on the fortitude and patience with which we sacrifice ourselves for the truth, as it is communicated to our lives concretely in the providential will of God

One bird sits still Watching the work of God:

Good Shepherd, You have a wild and crazy sheep in love with thorns and brambles. But please don't get tired of looking for me! I know You won't. For You have found me. All I have to do is stay found.

Tu qui sedes in tenebris spe tua gaude: orta stella matutina, sol non tardabit.

He was a very good gardener, understood flowers, and knew how to make things grow. What is more, he liked this kind of work almost as much as painting.

Jesus, I put myself in Your hands. I rest in Your wisdom that has arranged all things for me. I promise to stop jumping out of Your arms to try and walk on my own feet, forgetting that I am no longer on the ground or near it!

To know when to stop To know when you can get no further By your own action, This is the right beginning!

Nothing is more suspicious, in a man who seems holy, than an impatient desire to reform other men.

People even lose their vocations because they find out that a man can spend forty or fifty or sixty years in a monastery and still have a bad temper.

We must slow down to a human tempo and we'll begin to have time to listen.

One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life itself solves them for you. Usually the solution consists in a discovery that they only existed insofar as they were inseparably connected with your own illusory exterior self.

look for Him unless we have already found Him, and we cannot find Him unless he has first found us. We cannot begin to seek Him without a special gift of His grace, yet if we wait for grace to move us, before beginning to seek Him will probably never begin.