Quotes About Patience

As fruit ripens in the course of nature, so it is in the course of nature that the soul should mature; and it is no use being disappointed or disheartened.

The spark that one finds for a moment and that becomes dim does not belong to heaven, for in heaven all things are lasting; it must belong to some other place. Love has become a word from the dictionary, a word that is used a thousand times a day, which means nothing. To the one who knows what it means, love means patience, love means endurance, love means tolerance, love means sacrifice, love means service.

to find Gabbi waiting by her

Waiting for God is not always an easy task, but in the end His blessings will far outweigh any blessing you can imagine.

God's Word is the place to start when you are faced with any trial, struggle, or frustration.

Don't wait for him, angel. Not unless he can do better than that.

What about Caleb? Shouldn't you wait 'til he

Day in and day out, you are pestered by Barney the Dinosaur, singing about how much everyone loves everyone else and demanding that you turn your frown upside down, in a voice so drippily emphatic that you might like to fashion a shiv out of your sippy cup and gut that purple menace where he stands.

Instead of toggling between victory and defeat, we have to learn to live in the middle, in the gray area, where a real life can unfold on its own time.

You have to go from being a volcano that lies dormant for years and then explodes out of the blue, decimating several villages of innocent people, to becoming a volcano that lets off a slow, steady lava flow that's truly beautiful, yet predictable enough that people can come and marvel at its beauty without getting their faces singed off.

Campaigning and governing are not the same at all. It's easy to say what's wrong with government; it's harder to fix it, and progress can be very slow.

Patience is like making a cup of tea, first you ask if its needed, then you drink it slowly.

Some have it that patience is actually despair dressed as a virtue.

I know how to wait for clarity to emerge from chaos. I know what it is to trust in the power of the unseen.

To have faith is to be sure of the things we hope for, to be certain of the things we cannot see. It was by their faith that people of ancient times won God's approval.

Time is a great teacher, but unfortunately it kills all its pupils.

Scarlett O'Hara . . . I'll think about that tomorrow. XOXO,

When he went to college he wrote me letters which I answered within four days. Each letter took at least five drafts before I thought it suitable to send to Cambridge.

Anything too easily won was soon lost or else not worth winning

These are things we all have to grapple with. A five-year-old has much to learn. When people are annoying, it feels good to push them but we mustn't. Even though it's often pleasant to shout, others are trying to concentrate. Though we'd always like to be first, sometimes it's someone else's turn. And when we behave in a manner other people don't expect, there will be consequences

That even when what people were waiting for was the worst new of their life or the best, even when the waiting was heavy with implication and consequence, waiting people still transformed into cranky toddlers, impatient and frowning and red-faced infuriated with vending machines that dispensed the wrong thing, and kids who did not use their inside voice.

Date someone who sleeps instead, someone who thinks slowly and deeply and talks in words that don't need to be memorized from flash cards.

Perhaps desire will never be fulfilled. But to live is only worth the effort if you live in hope.

an insight can arrive long ahead of its usefulness.