Quotes About Patience

you don't have any choice but to quit fighting the sails and let the wind move the boat—drift on faith for a while.

All things pass, suga' pea. All the things a this worl' got a time for bornin' and time for dyin', and a time for troublin' and a time for restin'. Ssshhh

What we cannot change, we must endure without bitterness.

The rainbows of life come after the storms.

Happiness doesn't grow where impatience grazes.

Most of the time when we got a tough row to plow, the Good Lord makes us fall a little short and puts another mule in the pasture. You don't never know whether you're the blind mule or the deaf mule, but you're always one or the other.

We can never really know, except in hindsight, how prayers will be answered.

The train scoots along in a slow, lazy sway, like a mama rocking her baby, too lost in the look of her child to think of the day's work done or the hard row ahead.

when things are out of our hands, that doesn't mean they're not in God's.

A wise old owl sat on an oak; The more he saw, the less he spoke; The less he spoke, the more he heard. Why aren't we like that wise old bird?

even though Jack wasn't a romantic man in big showy ways, those little things let me know his feelings more than any high-dollar roses on Valentine's Day ever could have. In Corinthians, Paul says love's not boastful, so I reckon Jack got it right. His love was patient and quiet, and it endured.

I've finally come to fully understand that you can't fix another person. You can't fix the past. You can only change your way of reacting to it. You have to wait for other people to fix themselves.

The Lord has afforded breath for another day. The situation could be worse. They'd

Sometimes, talking to Amber was like herding cats.

We knock on the door and wait

What can't be understood and neatly sewn up must simply be let go, not in the way of giving up, but in the way of understanding who is really in control of it.

know what to do. He'll calm Briny's wildness, push the

Sometimes God puts a new path under your feet, not because you think you're ready to walk it, but because He knows that's the way you need to go.

Sometimes we must try to view the actions of those around us with forgiveness. We must realize that they are going on the only road they can see.

God gave teeth He will give bread.

Golf is not a game of great shots. It's a game of the most misses. The people who win make the smallest mistakes.

We can endure neither our evils nor their cures.

We suffer each other to have each other a while.

In this life, this is how one must wait, past despair, the heart a fossil, the minutes molten, the feet turned to stone.