Quotes About Patience

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience — and laughter.

I think that wherever your journey takes you, there are new gods waiting there, with divine patience – and laughter.

Where's Lori?" he asked when he saw the nurse wasn't there. "She's not avoiding me, is she?" His grandmother slipped off her glasses, put down her book and stared at him. "Amazingly enough, the whole world doesn't revolve around you, Reid. Lori's sister is sick and Lori took her to the doctor. She'll be back in an hour or so. Can you survive on your own until then, or should I call 9-1-1 for emergency assistance?

When all else is done, God is enough, everything, and always.

God hasn't forgotten you. There's a plan. you just don't know it yet. But when you're ready to get back into the game, He'll tell you.

You're just mad because God didn't answer your prayer the way you wanted him to.

God will show up even when we've made a mess of things. Even when it's out fault - He will show up because that's Who He is.

Lord, I know You're the only one who can make my dreams come true." Mona forced herself to surrender the next words. "I give You this dream, and all others, right now into Your hands for You to handle however You see fit.

So plan A is a bust. God can make plan B better than plan A ever would have been." Plan B. Or even plan C.

Instead of telling yourself you can't have the happy ending, why don't you let go of all your dreams—and your fears—and let God show you how it ends. He's the master of happy endings—let him figure it out." She

He's the author of dreams. And He's not a trickster. He doesn't give us a dream only to yank it away and laugh.

how faith is about trusting God when He seems farthest away. I'm wondering if, in those moments, we have to remember what we know about God, about what He's done for us.

The Ones who love you always come back

I'm having a rotten day. First I lock myself out of the house, then I rip my skirt climbing through the window, then Macy's computer eats my layaway. And now, old Noah here won't start.

God knows how tough it is to forgive, especially when someone has done you wrong. But He does expect you to do it. And He expects you to be patient and trust Him to work in others' lives. Psalm 37. It's one of my favorites, especially when I know God wants me to do something impossible, like forgive.

Be still in the presence of the Lord, and wait patiently for Him to act. Don't worry about evil people who prosper or fret about their wicked schemes.

You've always spent your life looking forward, the destination in mind. But faith is stepping forward without knowing the destination. Your job, as a warrior of the Lord, is to listen. To walk in faith.

God always answers. It's just a matter of how.

And hello, maybe you're exactly where you are supposed to be...maybe God used your issues to give you exactly what you wanted.

What if your story is better than you imagined and by holding on, you're only creating the ending you can see?...God has a bigger plan for you than you do for yourself.

but if I know anything about time, it is that it stretches to walk with you when you grieve. The rest of the world may zoom past at breakneck speed, but when you are learning to live with loss, time slows to the pace of your breathing.

Sometimes the expectation is better than the fulfillment.

Don't borrow tomorrow's burdens, my gram used to say.

Sometimes what you want is given to you in a way that is so very different from how you had pictured getting it