Quotes About Patience

When in uncharted territory, he thought, take one careful step at a time.

Simply put, that we don't know a good purpose for some evil does not mean there is no good purpose for it. There are many things we don't know. And there are many things we once did not know but now do know. So it should be expected that in the future we will discover good purposes for things for which we do not now know a good purpose.

No pain, no gain. Without danger, the virtue of courage cannot be developed. Without trials and tribulations we can have no patience. God has to permit sin before we can experience forgiveness. Higher-order virtues are dependent on allowing lower-order evils.

Well, until man is redeemed he will always take a fly rod too far back, just as natural man always overswings with an ax or golf club and loses all his power somewhere in the air; only with a rod it's worse, because the fly often comes so far back it gets caught behind in a bush or rock.

Something within fishermen tries to make fishing into a world perfect and apart—I don't know what it is or where, because sometimes it is in my arms and sometimes in my throat and sometimes nowhere in particular except somewhere deep. Many of us probably would be better fishermen if we did not spend so much time watching and waiting for the world to become perfect.

Nobody," he said, "has put in a good day's fishing unless he leaves a couple of flies hanging on the bushes. You can't catch fish if you don't dare go where they are." "Let

It took only forty hours to get Israel out of Egypt—the Passover. But it took forty years to get Egypt out of Israel.

The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

What people forget is a journey to nowhere starts with a single step, too.

After you find out all the things that can go wrong, your life becomes less about living and more about waiting.

To some of us, the nights are too long. To some, the days.

At this rate, we'll never get to the future.

When you're thinking about the rest of your life, you're never really thinking more than a couple years down the road.

You ever wonder when god's coming back with a lot of barbecue sauce?

Years of living in the hope that what you'll get will be better than what you have. Years of looking and feeling worse in the hope that you might look better.

The future had a way of breaking your heart if you expected too much.

People don't listen, they just wait for their turn to talk.

Brandy says, The best way is not to fight it, just go. Don't be trying all the time to fix things. What you run from only stays with you longer. When you fight something, you only make it stronger.

My gold­fish and me, both of us are just here swim­ming in one place.

Every job too miserable most times, is nothing compared to just waiting.

A year could pass be­tween her ask­ing a ques­tion and my an­swer.

The easy thing to do was give her the ben­efit of the doubt.

What if all of our anger and fear is unwarranted? What if world events are unfolding in perfect order to deliver us to a distant joy we can't conceive of at this time?

Can you just re­lax and let things hap­pen?