Quotes About Patience

What can't be helped must be endured.

The mercy of the world is time. Time does not stop for love, but it does not stop for death and grief, either.

He never complained. He seemed to have no instinct for the making much of oneself that complaining requires.

Prayer is like lying awake at night, afraid, with your head under the cover, hearing only the beating of your own heart. It is like a bird that has blundered down the flue and is caught indoors and flutters at the windowpanes. It is like standing a long time on a cold day, knocking at a shut door.

Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you must'nt shirk it. Love, after all, hopeth all things. But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.

Living without expectations is hard but, when you can do it, good. Living without hope is harder, and that is bad. You have got to have hope, and you mustn't shirk it. Love, after all, 'hopeth all things.' But maybe you must learn, and it is hard learning, not to hope out loud, especially for other people. You must not let your hope turn into expectation.

Time doesn't stop. Your life doesn't stop and wait until you get ready to start living it.

You think winter will never end, and then, when you don't expect it, when you have almost forgotten it, warmth comes and a different light.

I've come down from the sky like some damned ghost, delayed too long…To the abandoned fields the trees returned and grew. They stand and grow. Time comes To them, time goes, the trees Stand; the only place They go is where they are. Those wholly patient ones… They do no wrong, and they Are beautiful. What more Could we have thought to ask?... I stand and wait for light to open the dark night. I stand and wait for prayer to come and find me here." Sabbaths 2000 IX

After you have said "thy will be done," what more can be said?

I became a sort of garden fanatic, and I am not over it yet. You can take a few seed peas, dry and dead, and sow them in a little furrow, and they will sprout into a row of pea vines and bear more peas—it may not be a miracle, but that is a matter of opinion.

A lie will go round the world while truth is pulling its boots on.

Christians have many good reasons for hope. Optimism is another matter. Optimism assumes that, sooner or later, things will naturally turn out for the better. Hope has no such illusions. That

When the drink was set before him, he felt better. He did not drink it immediately. Now that he had it, he did not need to.

Control! Control, Mac," he said. "There's plenty of time." He lifted his coat from the back of a chair. "All afternoon," he added. "Time to go out and plenty of time to get back.

Look at the bow in the cloud, in the very rain itself. That is a sign that the sun, though you cannot see it, is shining still -- that up above beyond the cloud is still sunlight and warmth and cloudless blue sky.

A three-year diet of rubber chicken and occasional crow.

Baseball is a slow, boring, complex, cerebral game that doesn't lend itself to histrionics.

Charles Krauthammer

When you say a situation or a person is hopeless, you're slamming the door in the face of God.

There comes a time into almost every life a dark night and it is so easy to feel that is the end, that it will always be dark. Through faith we know that after the dark comes the sunrise. Charles L. Allen

When you say that a situation or a person is hopeless, you are slamming the door in the face of God.

them. The days are long, but the years are short.

No job is more difficult or more rewarding than being a parent.