Quotes About Patience

Part of being a good parent was knowing when to say something and what to say, Elizabeth thought. The hardest part of parenting was knowing when to say nothing and listen.

It is a grace to be able to hold onto someone who runs at life when you can only imagine walking.

She [Pidge Bledsoe] supposed there was something gentle in every man, even the mean ones.

Lord, thank You," Elizabeth whispered. "Thank You for Your mercy and Your goodness. Thank You for answering. And help me focus on the things I can see You doing instead of the things I can't see.

So do Your work, do it in Your timing, and help us to be faithful while You work.

People let their feelings push them away from God or away from believing that their life makes a difference. They think that because they don't see God working the way they think He should work, He's not there. Or they think He doesn't care and they get discouraged." When

You take heart now. Be encouraged. The bad times are really the good times in disguise. And I'm going to get down on my knees tonight and ask God to break through. God is walking with you

Lord, You know that Tony is not the man I want him to be. He's not the man You want him to be. So I'm putting him right at the top here.

Pray and wait. That's what she had done in the past few weeks. And in the waiting came the strengthening of the muscles of faith. It was a whole-faith workout to wait and allow God to do what He wanted to do. As Clara said, it was time to just get out of His way.

wanted all my questions answered and everything wrapped and tied with a bow. But life is not neat bows and nice packages. Life is messy and you don't get all your questions answered.

You open the show with a bang, then don't come back on for 45 minutes.

I just don't know a couple that's been married more than three years that doesn't annoy the heck out of each other every 15 minutes.

People don't want to embrace culture shifts because it's not going to happen in the next 20 minutes.

I've been working on the new Miracle Mop for many years.

Especially in Los Angeles you get attached to these projects and then they lie around and you wait and look for that moment in time when everything just works out - every movie that gets made here in LA is a little bit of a miracle.

Expectancy is the atmosphere for miracles.

I do not demand miracles from anyone.

I believed in, I don't want to call it miracles, but God has a way of making things work out.

Don't expect any miracles, I can only come in and do what I can and give my best. I can't work miracles but I will try to.

But coming back from injury, is like starting to exercise for the first time. You can't get stuck in straight away because you might do yourself a mischief; you have to be sensible.

Very quickly, kids take your plan and say, 'Ha!' so you have to learn to be adaptable, or you will be literally miserable.

The misfortunes hardest to bear are these which never came.

Sometimes injuries can be the best thing that happen to a guy because it allows you to freshen up and allows the crowd to miss you.

I didn't start until I was 21, and most people I know were 13 when they had their first guitar - I missed that time where you sit in your bedroom all day for years and accidentally you're doing classical training, although you're not thinking of it that way. It's not as easy, as you get older, to do all that kind of practice.