Quotes About Patience

If spring betrays summer, would autumn never arrive?

Possess your soul without fussing; your guardian angel does not lose half the sleep over you you think he does.

A Christmas shopper's complaint is one of long-standing.

The silent man is the best to listen to.

To silence another, first be silent yourself.

The best answer to anger is silence.

When the people look like ants — pull, When the ants look like people — pray.

I have this desire to just while away weeks, months and years. It took me two years to make this record but that was with me trying to condense my process and not disappear down the rabbit hole with all the cool things I've collected. I could take 10 years and not explore everything I want to with these instruments.

I can't do anything quickly. I can be spontaneous, but I have to think about it.

Wait for the right, honest words from the man you're interested in before jumping conclusions. Unless he tells you he loves you, he doesn't.

Mother always says that when things seem to be in a tangle to us it's just that God is executing an especially intricate and marvelous pattern in our lives, and we must be pliable in His hands, so as not to hinder. Lord, have Thy way with me today!

Dear Father," she prayed, "please take care of this for me. Don't let me have to go anywhere or do anything with that MacCallummore man, please, dear Lord." When she arose she looked about her with eyes that were touched with peace again. Now she mustn't just sit here and brood over this thing. She had given it into God's hands, and that was all there was to do at present.

Dear Lord, here is something again that I don't know how to manage and can't do anything about. Won't You please take over, and help me to trust it utterly to You? Show me just what to say and do.

went right to the spot, and would save putting up much else. Hannah shut her lips and tried to make the line of them look pleasant, but

Don't ever fancy, no matter how hard a thing you have to go through, that your experience is unique. This old world has been going on a good many hundred years, and there are precious few situations that haven't happened over and over again. Cheer up, child; that's a model letter, and you're a good little sport!

instead of seething with indignation over injustice, one must expect to take it for granted, and leave with God the responsibility of doing away with it.

Thy will, not ours, be done.

And you think the Lord gives attention to such little details as how long a potato should cook?" asked Ruth earnestly. "Why yes, dear," answered the mother, "if you put a matter, even a little matter, into the Lord's hands to guide you, and trust that He will, of course He will.

The Lord cares for His own, even in little things." "Do you mean nothing ever happens against your wishes and prayers?" asked Eden almost breathlessly. "Oh, no, but I mean that when you leave it all to Him, He works it out marvelously. I don't mean it always comes the way you have planned it, or want it even, but that if it doesn't, you know it will work out in the end to be even better than you wanted, if you are patient and rest in Him.

The trouble is we can't see the plan, and so we go fretting because it doesn't fit our ideas.

There is a long time in me between knowing and telling.

Sabia perfeitamente que era assim, acostumara-se a todas as violências, a todas as injustiças. E aos conhecidos que dormiam no tronco e aguentavam cipó de boi oferecia consolações: — "Tenha paciência. Apanhar do governo não é desfeita.

Unhappiness in a child accumulates because he sees no end to the dark tunnel. The thirteen weeks of a term might just as well be thirteen years.

Try for perfect communication, but give yourself a break if you're not there yet.