Quotes About Patience

Be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves," Rilke advised

A Favorite Recipe Good for All Souls Take a cup of kindness, And mix it well with love. Add a lot of patience, And faith in God above. Sprinkle very generously with Joy and thanks and cheer. And you'll have lots of angel food To feast on all the year! Submitted by Wanda C. Fields from her church cookbook Reidsville, North Carolina

laundromats . . . like a waiting room for people who didn't go anywhere

it's like drinking poison and waiting for the other person to die.

you should first follow the plow if you want to dance the harvest jig.

No one was innocent in the sight of God anyway. Now imagine the cannibalism, rape, murder, child sacrifice, and so on. Yet God was patient. He gave a 120-year countdown to the Flood (Genesis 6:313) and even sent a preacher of righteousness (2 Peter 2:514).

But Jacob knew that if God wanted Esau to have the inheritance, God would have made it happen. God is in control. We should all learn that lesson from Jacob.

Notice also that those saved did not reveal everything they knew about God to unbelievers. They waited until God started a relationship with the unbelievers and revealed things to them.

Do not stop doing what God has called you to do because you do not understand what is going on. Just be a witness.

Man impatiently yearns to penetrate the future, but as often as not the veil which hides tomorrow is the merciful dispensation of a shielding Providence.

What makes people so impatient is what I can't figure; all the guy had to do was wait.

I've said that education is a living process that can best be compared to agriculture. Gardeners know that they don't make plants grow.

African proverb, "Life is like eating an elephant; you need to do it one mouthful at a time.

Creo que fue la actriz y cómica estadounidense Phyllis Diller quien dijo que nos pasamos los tres primeros años de vida de nuestro hijo enseñándole a caminar y a hablar, y los siguientes doce años en la escuela diciéndole que se siente y se calle.

Trusting God does not mean believing he will do what you want, but rather believing he will do everything he knows is good.

Proverbs 19:11

1. Never tell everything at once.

If you want something,but you can't have it for now. Hold it, wait for the time and somehow, someday you'll get a chance that if you really want it you could have it.

At daybreak on the first day, thousands of Cambodians are already calmly waiting outside my polling station. They squat on the ground, silent and patient. We didn't expect this at all. We thought they would fail to understand how democracy works. We thought they would be afraid of the Khmer Rouge. We thought they would passively accept their fate. We were wrong.

Do what God says do. Endeavor to be faithful, no matter what happens or what comes. And leave the results to God.

Hope says, "I'll get healed sometime." Heart faith says, "It's mine now.

Notice the Scripture says, "Not rendering evil for evil, or railing for railing." If they "rail" on you, don't rail on them, "but contrariwise blessing." Blessing, blessing, blessing, blessing.

You see, you can't always go by what it looks like. There always comes a test to your faith. The trial of your faith, the Bible said, is more precious than gold.

And in your own life, just say it once. And whenever you think about it, just praise God for the answer.