Quotes About Patience

It's okay. Don't push her, Sharon.

So I wait for him because I always have, because out of all the moments that went wrong, I think there were just as many that went right, just as much love and heat and want as hurt, disappointment, and cruelty. I want to believe there's a balance here, that out of this tragedy will come some good, and there will be a happy ending.

Heavenly Father, you must think us such silly creatures, always worrying about tomorrow and letting today slip by.

God had not turned a deaf ear. He had been waiting for her to listen, as He always did.

Lauraine Snelling

Was she like the prairie, only slowly yielding to God's plow in her life? She needed busting, then backsetting, and finally after snow and sun and rain, the seeds could be planted that would sprout into living wheat.

Problems don't always get fixed. Lots of the time things are boring or dumb for no good reason. Or even terrible. And you can't do anything about it. That's life.

Everything had its purpose. If you waited long enough, a useless thing would become useful again.

We never argue anymore. And when we do, it never lasts more than a week or two.

The British never seem to do anything until they've had a cup of tea, By which time it's too late.

Patience was not my strong point.

His attention span was not long, shall we say?

at the hospital] "What do you think's taking them so long?"[...] "Well," I say "They obviously don't think it's a big deal or they would have carted you right back here." "Or," Lacey says, "they probably know I'm going to die and so they're leaving me out here because they need to help the people who actually have a chance." "Lacey," I say. "Did you see them bringing in the guys who was bleeding profusely from the head?" "Yes," she says. "If that guy has a chance, then you definitely do.

Ty swung around. He was obviously fed up with Ben's negative attitude.

What do you do when there are no passing planes?

Bide your time, until things begin to make sense

Don't wait too long to be rescued, old lady – you might pass your sell-by date.

There's not a business or a master plan as far as I'm concerned. I take it week by week, and I don't think you ever expect to be able to do the next thing.

I definitely think there are times -- setbacks -- where it's dark while you're going through it, but eventually you figure out why you had to survive that dark time.

And I understood that I ought not ask for a prayer language until I could ask without making it the test of my entire faith.

Augustine wrote that God sometimes does not give us what we ask in prayer. "Of His bounty, the Lord often grants not what we seek, so as to bestow something preferable.

While I very much wanted to be in a relationship, I didn't want to be in the wrong one.

Like wading through water; That hard, that slow.

What if you find your soul mate... at the wrong time?