Quotes About Patience

knitters use both hands

Sadie was waiting in

She said interruptions were simply God's appointments.

will you teach me how to knit?

While Abraham was learning to obey God, Sarah was learning to obey her husband, and God was busy doing miracles for both of them. God chose Sarah as surely as he chose Abraham. It took an obedient woman to become the mother of a great nation. Sarah

Already you are walking in the heat to get somewhere, but where can you go? There is nowhere but here. This street or that street, it is all the same. One day you will know this, and you will sit down and wait.

Sometimes--well, maybe always--we just have to take it on faith that God knows what He's doing.

You have to love men a lot," she once wrote. "A lot, a lot. You have to love men a lot. Otherwise they are simply unbearable.

Being an entrepreneur is a mental job... It takes patients! YOU are doing more motivation to yourself than anyone on this planet.

He might be starving, but he ate when the meal was ready, and with her, not while she was still draining the pasta.

Don't give up on the Lord. Have faith and be open to His will, not yours. If there's something you're supposed to do or something you're supposed to know, you will. Moved

Prayers are always answered. Whether we like the answers or even recognize them is altogether another matter. Sounds

Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn. (Calmly We Walk Through This April's Day)

Time is the school in which we learn, Time is the fire in which we burn.

The best doctor is the one you run to, but that you cannot find.

Nowadays people rush into print before they've even finished the proof.

This wasn't the sea of the inexorable horizon and smashing waves, not the sea of distance and violence, but the sea of the etenally leveling patience and wetness of water. Whether it comes to you in a storm or in a cup, it owns you--we are more water than dust. It is our origin and our destination.

It felt like the moment before the Savior comes. And the Savior did come, but we had to wait a long time.

She was resting at a table between numbers in the Greek nightclub where she was dancing. A little of the stage light touched her. She was very frail. She seemed to be thinking about something far away, waiting patiently for somebody to destroy her.

They'd been here twenty seconds, and already nothing was happening.

Failure is delay, not defeat. It is a temporary detour, not a dead end.

Meet me back here in twenty," he called, shutting the door. " 'Kay, Dad!" He froze, the title catching him right in the gut. He watched her disappear into the barn, a smile of wonder lifting his mouth.

Ah, the meek. Playing the long game. Sneaky bastards.

I know you. I've known you my whole life. I've been waiting. Waiting for you to make an appearance. Waiting all these years. I knew you in the womb.