Quotes About Patience

Take no thought for your life, what ye shall eat, or what ye shall drink; nor yet for your body, what ye shall put on. Is not the life more than meat, and the body than raiment? Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they? … But seek ye first the kingdom of God, and his righteousness; and all these things shall be added unto you.

He never raised his voice, even in the midst of volatile situations.

five words from a church hymn: One step enough for me. Lead, kindly Light … Keep thou my feet: I do not ask to see The distant scene; one step enough

I am going to meet people today who talk too much—people who are selfish, egotistical, ungrateful. But I won't be surprised or disturbed, for I couldn't imagine a world without such people.

The rule is jam tomorrow and jam yesterday but never jam today.

Arguing with another person will rarely get you anywhere;

This process is a slow one, but one that will always bear fruit.

El protestador crónico, aun el crítico más violento, se suavizará y apaciguará frecuentemente en presencia de un oyente que muestre paciencia y simpatía:

It was an important day in my life when at last I understood that if he needed forty days in the wilderness at one point, I very likely could use three or four.

Anything done in anger can be done better without it!

Dallas Willard

Keep in mind that God did not say that Job was wrong in what he said, but that he did not understand what he was saying.

I remember a time I went to him with a more personal problem: "Hey Dallas, my heart is breaking, I can't fix it, I don't understand it, and I'm sadder than I've ever been in my life." There was a long pause. With Dallas there's always a long pause. And then he said, "This will be a test of your joyful confidence in God.

And where people do not want to know God, he usually allows them to be without him—at least for a while. When desire conflicts with reality, sooner or later reality wins.

One good way to check our motives when doing something for the Lord is to see how sweet and patient we can remain when it does not go the way we want it to.

This is where so many distressing stories come from about people in the ministry. Anyone who is attempting to help others in the way of Christ needs to have the life they are describing. They must have peace, purity, patience, and the other fruit produced by following Jesus. They must have a willingness to see others praised, while they are overlooked. They must die to the idea that what they want has any importance at all.

God will gladly give humility to us if, trusting and waiting on him to act, we refrain from pretending we are what we know we are not, from presuming a favorable position for ourselves and from pushing or trying to override the will of others.

cards. Twenty-four

Waiting in respectful silence is an essential part of the job and he has developed the capacity to simulate deep calm while experiencing none of it. In his core, Mervyn Glass is a frantic man.

Joy must be chosen, but the deeper conundrum is that it can't be controlled or cajoled as to when it will come or how long it will stay.

Don't show it and don't panic. Do like the ducks; on the surface stay calm, and below it paddle lile hell

All around the world, we are gazing skyward waiting for God… Never realizing that God is waiting for us.

Nothing is impossible. Impossible just takes a bit longer.

the NSA lived by its motto: Everything is possible. The impossible just takes longer.