Quotes About Patience

horses. It took them three more days to come

When Suffering knocks at your door and you say there is no seat left for him, he tells you not to worry because he has brought his own stool.

The impatient idealist says: 'Give me a place to stand and I shall move the earth.' But such a place does not exist. We all have to stand on the earth itself and go with her at her pace.

When mother-cow is chewing grass its young ones watch its mouth

Nothing puzzles God

A toad does not run in the daytime for nothing

Our elders say that the sun will shine on those who stand before it shines on those who kneel under them.

Don't disparage the day that still has an hour of light in its hand.

My people have a saying which my father often used. A man whose horse is missing will look everywhere even in the roof.

A person who has not secured a place on the floor should not begin to look for a mat.

The damage done in one year can sometimes take ten or twenty years to repair.

the words of encouragement which the bedbug was said to have spoken to her children when hot water was poured on them all. She told them not to lose heart because whatever was hot must in the end turn cold.

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wait for a man to avenge your honor, and you'll wait forever.

First comes peace. Then joy. Then love. And finally understanding.

Time is not your enemy, forever is.

Endure. In enduring, grow strong.

A novel rough draft is like bread dough; you need to beat the crap out of it for it to rise.

Thursday night.

Wrap your heart around that the next time you go through a struggle," Clara said. "The goal of prayer is not to change God's mind

I want that person you knew to return. But the truth is, this may be the best we achieve. Today, having her here and comfortable and not agitated…that may be as good as we get. Are you okay with that?

Love, like treasure, stays buried until somebody decides to dig. [Narrator (TD Lovett)]

Nobody knows that but you and God. And you don't even know the half of it. You see, he looks at our lives as a whole, not just today, tomorrow, yesterday, and next week. Not even this year and next. He's not counting your failures and your mistakes and keeping a running tab like heaven's waiter. He sees the end just as well as the beginning. He knows about the pit you're in right now.

She was putting it in God's hands. If Tony came to mind, she'd pray. Otherwise, she needed to keep moving forward. Do the things she was assigned to do.