Quotes About Patience

We all of us waited for him to die. The family sent him a check every month, and hoped he'd get on with it quietly, without too much vulgar fuss.

If fame comes after death, I'm in no hurry for it. [Lat., Si post fata venit gloria non propero.]

In case you're not a computer person, I should probably point out that 'Real Soon Now' is a technical term meaning 'sometime before the heat-death of the universe, maybe'.

The stoicism that comes of endurance has something of death in it.

Death is not the problem; waiting around for it is.

I ask a wreathwhich will not crush my head. And there is no hurry about it; I shall have, doubtless, a boom after my funeral, Seeing that long standing increases all things regardless of quality.

the perverse senselessness of just remaining, of not going.

Nothing illegal is achieved without patience.' Benjamin Franklin.

Sylvia Levov stoically and impatiently endured him, her only successful form of resistance being to freeze him out and live with the isolation—and see more of herself evaporating year by year.

Just take it as it comes. Hold your ground and take it as it comes. There's no other way.

Limited men with limitless energy; men quick to be friendly and quick to be fed up; men for whom the most serious thing in life is to keep going despite everything. And we were their sons. It was our job to love them.

Hämningar växer inte på träd förstår ni - det behövs tålamod, det behövs koncentration, det behövs en hängiven och självuppoffrande förälder och ett hårt arbetande, uppmärksamt litet barn för att på bara några år skapa en riktigt hämmad och knuten och förstoppad människa.

We truly live only one day at a time. It doesn't really help to worry about the future, which we can't control, or the past, which we can't change.

We whine about things we have little control over; we lament what we believe ought to be changed.

we persevere because we believe rewards will come.

Faith, I've concluded, means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse.

Grace, my friends, demands nothing from us but that we shall await it with confidence and acknowledge it in gratitude.

My slowness to act is a sign of mercy, not of weakness.

instruct the ignorant, counsel the doubtful, admonish sinners, bear wrongs patiently, forgive offences willingly, comfort the afflicted, pray for the living and the dead.

We cannot simply pray and then wait for God to do the rest.

Virtually every passage on suffering in the New Testament deflects the emphasis from cause to response.

Can we live now "as if" God is loving, gracious, merciful, and all-powerful, even while the blinders of time are obscuring our vision? The

What is faith, after all, but believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse

Can we live now "as if " God is loving, gracious, merciful, and all-powerful, even while the blinders of time are obscuring our vision? The prophets proclaim that history will be determined not by the past or present, but by the future.