Quotes About Patience

David Jeremiah

Do not expect to master the Bible in a day, or a month, or a year. Rather expect often to be puzzled by its contents. It is not all equally clear. Great men of God often feel like absolute novices when they read the Word. The apostle Peter said that there were some things hard to understand in the epistles of Paul (2

When insult comes our way, we look for a way to respond in love (Matthew 5:38-39).

We must admit that God owes us nothing. Before we charge God with not caring, we must thank Him for those times when His care is very evident. We are ever surrounded by undeserved blessings. Even in His silence, He blesses us.[8]

If you have a steel ball, solid steel, the size of this earth, 25,000 miles in circumference, and every one million years a little sparrow would be released to land on that ball to sharpen his beak and fly away only to come back another million years later and begin again, by the time he would have worn that ball down to the size of a BB, eternity would have just begun.

Blaise Pascal is reported to have said, "All human evil comes from a single cause, man's inability to sit still in a room.

When insult comes our way, we look for a way to respond in love (Matthew

Waiting is not always a bad thing; it can bring its own joy —the thrill of anticipation.

You've got to have the emotional understanding that you can make the right play time and time again," he would say, "but you can still lose. And even if you lose four times in a row, you're still supposed to make the same play the fifth time. It's a very easy concept in theory, but in practice it's much harder, especially when you see people making bad moves and they win. You have to do the right move all the time." Once

Just because you are dealing with difficult people does not mean that you must become like them.

Don't be so sure that what you want is what you should have.

Life goes on. Get over it. You're still young. It'll get better. Blah, Blah, Blah

Some days are like this. And the only way to get through them is to remember that they are only one day, and that every day ends.

I never know what you really want, if I can give it to you, or if I'm already too late.

You never let things go unanswered for too long. Emails. Phone calls. Questions. As if you know the waiting is the hardest part for me.

Every single answer starts with the phrase 'I don't know.' But most of the time she does know, if I give her the time and the space in which to answer.

Every relationship has a hard part at the beginning. This is our hard part. It's not like a puzzle piece where there's an instant fit. With relationships, you have to shape the pieces on each end before they go perfectly together.

Things rarely get fixed the way they need to be.

All I get is tomorrow.

Someday your prince will come, I assure him. And the first thing I'm going to say to him is, 'What took you so long?

I would always wait to take you home.

Tell me a way you think this can work. We'll find a way, I tell her. That's not an answer. It's a hope. Hope's gotten us this far. Not answers.

Honestly, I'm just trying to live day to day

I wanted every word to last for hours, every gaze to last for days.