Quotes About Patience

The Lord's bond-servant must not be quarrelsome, but be kind to all, able to teach, patient when wronged, with gentleness correcting those who are in opposition, if perhaps God may grant them repentance leading to the knowledge of the truth (2 Tim. 2:24-25).

It is an unfortunate fact that no one has yet invented a Geiger counter which we can place over a man's heart and get a good read out of what he is really like inside. Time and time alone can accomplish that.

Do not add to the cross in your life by becoming so busy that you have no time to sit quietly before God. Do not resist what God brings into your life. Be willing to suffer if that is what is needed. Overactivity and stubbornness will only increase your anguish.

No young believer should ever rise quickly in the ministry.

Trying to get a Phoenix build going is like playing Legend of Zelda, if it were written by a sadist, forcing her to adventure far and wide to find hidden keys scattered across the kingdom and given only measly clues from uncaring NPCs. But when you finally finish the level, you can't actually play the next level—you have to mail paper coupons to the manufacturer and wait weeks to get the activation codes.

I'm about to ask what he means by an "Allspaw," when he just waves my question away.

Dr. Seuss books, Oh, the Places You'll Go. The book describes the dreaded Waiting Place, where people wait for the fish to bite, wind to fly a kite, for Uncle Jake, for pots to boil, or a better break …

I don't intentionally spoil my grandkids. It's just that correcting them often takes more energy than I have left.

My grandchild has taught me what true love means. It means watching Scooby-Doo cartoons while the basketball game is on another channel.

Like good wine, marriage gets better with age — once you learn to keep a cork in it.

To enter the room of the Tathagata is to have great compassion for all living beings. To wear the robe of the Tathagata is to be gentle and patient. To sit on the seat of the Tathagata is to contemplate the emptiness of all things. One should dwell in peace with all three and then, never becoming lazy or careless, teach this Dharma Flower Sutra everywhere to bodhisattvas and the four groups.

Johnson! Have I committed any illegal actions?' Johnson checked his watch. 'Not within the last three minutes, sir.

I may take a while to learn from my mistakes, but I get there eventually.

Let's not borrow trouble till it's actually here.

Stories are like that. They'll wait for you until you can come back to them.

Stay still." How stupid of him; did he really think she was going to go running off somewhere? "Bradamant will get help." "It's just a flesh wound," she murmured, then darkness came down over her eyes and swallowed her up.

She'd been trying to improve her written Korean from appalling to merely bad.

I haven't seen you for three whole months," I say. "Two months, twenty-two days, twenty-two days," Natalie calls out.

I got to a traffic light, and it turned red. I said, "Why me?"

Just because there's a crack in something, doesn't mean you throw it away.

Note: WAAAAAAY

The lyf so short, the craft so long to lerne,Th' assay so hard, so sharp the conquerynge.

No wedded man so hardy be t'assailleHis wyves pacience, in trust to fyndeGrisildis, for in certein he shal faille!

This flour of wyfly pacience.