Quotes About Patience

It is not every question that deserves an answer.

A grandchild is a miracle, but a renewed relationship with your own children is even a greater one. Grandparents who want to be truly helpful will do well to keep their mouths shut and their opinions to themselves until these are requested.

I think I have more patience now than I did in the past.

There is no day or night in a hospital, there is only now.

this world you live in...might feel unkind, but the world is bigger than this. It won't be like this forever. If you can just survive this, someday I promise you will be appreciated. And happy. And loved.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else do it wrong without comment.

The most difficult thing in the world is to know how to do a thing and to watch somebody else doing it wrong, without comment.

Here I am, an old man in a dry month,Being read to by a boy, waiting for rain.

For love would be love of the wrong thing there is yet faith, But the faith and the love and the hope are all in the waiting.

You cannot rush God's timing. When the Lord speaks a word into your life, it is like a seed. Is your confidence in God's seed?

Accept the process. Your blessing is already ready. It's already done. God is getting you ready for the blessing, preparing you for your destiny.

Your hindrance? Trying to build your dream without the Dreammaker.

If we have been diligent to hide the Word of God in our hearts, and if we continue to labor over that Word, we can be assured that in the time of harvest we will reap a bountiful reward if we faint not. (See Galatians 6:9.)

God's response is simple. Anything that is made well is made slowly.

Just because the vision tarries doesn't mean God has changed His mind or given up on you. It could very well mean that the timing or the situation is not right for God to get the ultimate glory and benefit out of your trusting in Him. Hold on to faith even in the midst of the battle.

You can be the most grateful person in the world, but if you have not arrived at the place God wants you to be, to do the thing God has destined you and only you to do, that longing will never go away.

Many people live in the waiting room, not because of God's unwillingness to promote, but because of their unwillingness to be faithful in their current life situation.

We are a microwave generation serving a Crock-Pot God.

The slower journey allows time for maturity and experience to shape you into the person who comfortably fits into your destiny.

God has not forgotten you.

Second, the biblical principle of "ask, seek, and knock" is prudent advice for gaining a higher level of access.

Being planted and being buried may feel similar—if not identical—but the intention leads to very different outcomes.

Israel's wandering in the wilderness wasn't just because [God] was angry with them. His continuous moving with them in the wilderness was because He wanted time to get out of them what their years of being slaves had put in them. And the best way to show anyone who you really are is to constantly be in their presence.

I said to my soul, be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing; wait without love, for love would be love of the wrong thing; there is yet faith, but the faith and the love are all in the waiting. Wait without thought, for you are not ready for thought: So the darkness shall be the light, and the stillness the dancing.