Quotes About Patience

A watched supper dish never fills!

Hello, Sally? Let me talk to Chuck, will you?" "I think he's lost in the woods." "I know what you mean, but let me talk to him, will you?

I feel a constant gratefulness to God for His patience with me and with all of us. I cannot fail to be thrilled every time I read the things that Jesus said, and I am more and more convinced of the necessity of following Him. What Jesus means to me is this: in Him we are able to see God and to understand His feelings toward us. I am still a believer in what the church refers to as "holy living." I think it is applicable for a person in whatever profession he may be working.

Life is easier if you only Dread one day at a time.

Child, the Lord gives you what you need, when you need it.

Waiting for somebody does that. It turns minutes to hours, hours to days, and days to several lifetimes.

Puzzles forced me to look at something from several angles before I moved on, to look again, and again, and possibly again because each piece—no matter how small or seemingly insignificant—was critical to the whole.

That we were made to want and give love. That no matter how dark the night, midnight will pass. No darkness, no matter how dark, can hold back the second hand. Whether you like it or not, whether you want it or not, whether you hope it or not, whether you build a wall around your soul and cut out your eyes, wait a few hours and the sun will crack the skyline and the darkness will roll back like a scroll.

See it?" ... "Yeah." ... "How in the world did you see that in the first place?" "Don't know." "It's hard to make out." "Give it about ten minutes..." So we waited. Trying not to look at it so much that it lost all meaning. Like a word you say over and over until you're only hearing what it sounds like and you've forgotten what it means.

But time does heal. Not like we think it does, not like we would—from the front—but more from the back or side or someplace we can't see it coming. It bubbles up beneath and rises all around.

sometimes it's hard to see what could be, what we hope for, through the hurting part of what is, 'cause sometimes stuff hurts so much that we can't see nothing. But then sometimes what we hope for, well, seems like if we hope it long enough, hard enough, deep enough, it becomes what it.

trust is built over time and

It is a flower that sprouts and grows when others pour water upon it. I think sometimes that I spent so much time worrying about how to protect and strengthen the flower—even going so far as to graft in a new stem and root system—that I forgot to simply water it.

Don't get axle-wrapped 'bout what you can't control. You'll get your chance. Your job is to make the most of it when you do.

not. And before you start

I have had to learn the simplest things last. Which made for difficulties.

Surrender is essentially an operation by means of which we set about explaining instead of acting.

To wait so long/And want a man refined and strong/Is not at all uncommon. And yet to wait one hundred years/Without a tear, without a care/Makes for a very rare woman. So here our tale appears to show/How marriage deferred/Brings joy unheard/Nothing lost after a century or so. But others love with more ardor/And wed quickly out of passion/Whatever they do/I won't deplore/Nor shall I preach a lesson.

Programming in machine code is like eating with a toothpick.

The big problem was the typing. When you run up against a policeman at a typewriter, you might as well get a Coke and relax.

But I had not the strength nor the inclination to bandy words with a drunkard. What have you done when you have bested a fool?

Lord, help me to wait expectantly, to act purposefully, and to trust You to see me through to the end. Amen.

God will often require quick action, but he also requires stillness and reflection." —MEDITATING ON THE WORD

Stand still... and refuse to retreat. Look at it as God looks at it and draw upon His power to hold up under the blast.