Quotes About Patience

when you trust the Lord God to give you the next step, when you wait in humility upon Him, *He* will open the doors or close them, and you'll get to rest and relax until He says, 'Go.

If you aren't vigilant, if you aren't daily humbling yourself before Him, seeking His face, discerning His timing, operating under the Spirit's control, you may push and shove and force your way prematurely into that place where God wanted you, but you will not have arrived in His own time.

We don't like waiting, but that's when God does some of His best work on our souls.

You may have had big-time plans in your life-major league dreams that haven't panned out. You were going to write a best-selling book, but the opportunities just haven't come along. Are you willing to write for your church newsletter?

strange land while we await the return of Christ.

Cuanto más vivo, y cuanto más cerca de Cristo camino, mayor es mi convicción de que él no se toma el tiempo de explicar el por qué. De modo que confiamos en él a lo largo de la vida sin la expectativa de que sea respondido el «por qué».

Moses, you see, had walked with God long enough to know that even though the Lord's directions might seem foolish, he wasn't to question them. And

The offering had been meager, the miracle dramatic, and the provision abundant, but the lesson was not yet complete.

As long as we hold onto our own desires and remain fixated on having our way, we will be unable to see God, even if He were to stand right before our eyes. God, in His patient, sometimes painful mercy, allows us to hold our desires as tightly as we wish until we tire of the pain and loosen our grip. Meanwhile, He holds before us a divine alternative, one that offers great abundance in exchange for the trinkets we clutch with desperate resolve.

Life's a tough proposition, and the first hundred years are the hardest. —WILSON MIZNER L

La oración me hace esperar. No puedo orar y trabajar al mismo tiempo. Tengo que esperar hasta que termine la oración para actuar. La oración me obliga a abandonar la situación en las manos de Dios; me hace esperar.

Please cleanse me, even if I must endure hardship or suffer affliction in the process. Grant me the courage to remain steadfast as You work. Grant me patience to endure the process and provide extra encouragement when my patience wears thin. Then let me rejoice when Your temple is again pure. I make the same request as David did so many years ago: Create in me a clean heart, O God (Ps. 51:

Like I said: the only god I believe in is coming back. And when he arrives, I'll be waiting with a shotgun.

It's a bit like cricket," Pete agrees. "Weeks of endless boredom interspersed with the occasional moment of existential terror.

But what are we going to do with a load of guns?" asks Pete. "I don't know, Brains, what are we going to do with a half-track full of guns?" Pinky asks. Brains chuckles. "Same thing we do every night, Pinky—" "Fort up and wait for reinforcements," Pinky says flatly.

I am forever loving, forever waiting, forever yearning... forever yours.

Love is the knot you tie in your proverbial rope, to hang on to while God works out His will in your life. You were born to be a blessing.

Who knows how you should be? We simply do our best, over and over and over.

When we discover Zen practice, we may hold out a hope that it is going to solve our problems and make our life perfect. But Zen practice simply returns us to life as it is. Being our lives more and more is what Zen practice is about. Our lives are simply what they are, and Zen helps us to recognize that fact. The thought If I do this practice patiently enough, everything will be different is simply another belief system, another version of the promise that is never kept.

Go then, I will keep a herring in the window for you.

It's true what they say about patience being a virtue; it just happens to be a virtue that I choose not to pursue.

Never run after a man or a bus, there's always another one in five minutes.

After all, I want to live my life, not rush through it.

few days. Or would you rather come