Quotes About Patience

Too much revelation and I'd pridefully run ahead of You. Too little and I'd be paralyzed with fear.

Psalm 103:8 The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.

Though it felt so permanent at the time, in the scope of my life, I can now see it was truly just a short-term setback from which the Lord delivered me.

For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him! (30:15–18)

We don't have to know the plan to trust there is a plan. We don't have to feel good to trust there is good coming. We don't have to see evidence of changes to trust that it won't always be this hard.

It's hard when we are living in that space where our head knows God can do anything, but our heart is heavy because He's not doing what we are hoping for.

When His timing seems questionable, His lack of intervention seems hurtful, and His promises seem doubtful, I get afraid. I get confused. And left alone with those feelings, I can't help but feel disappointed that God isn't doing what I assume a good God should do.

So in the course of time Hannah became pregnant and gave birth to a son" (emphasis added). And in the course of time, things will work out for me too. And things will work out for you.

If I want His promises, I have to trust His process.

I have to trust that first comes the dust, and then comes the making of something even better with us. God isn't ever going to forsake you, but He will go to great lengths to remake you.

If I want His promises, I have to trust His process. I have to trust that first comes the dust, and then comes the making of something even better with us. God isn't ever going to forsake you, but He will go to great lengths to remake you.

Prudence, patience, labor, valor; these are the stars that rule the career of mortals.

Patience is a good palfrey, and will carry us a long day.

Judgment is not always required. You don't need to have an opinion on every issue.

After sowing seeds in the soil and completing our various tasks, we need to be able to walk away without seeking to be noticed. We should not hold on to any expectations about witnessing the harvest.

If at first you don't succeed, you're running about average.

It's a funny thing how hope has a way of always hovering there in the background, even when one's gut says it's over.

Time doesn't mean anything to me. I just work along with nature, and in time it is finished." Mike, the logger from Melanie Cove

Time doesn't mean anything to me. I just work along with nature, and in time it is finished." Mike from Melanie Cove

Expect the worst and hope for the best.

it is an act of bravery not to die in the circumstances in which you have been living. Your very patience was the face of resistance! And what you resisted was the desire of those around you to negate you! Well, you have not been negated. From almost nothing, you have nevertheless derived the strength to go on... and that strength has seen you here, to a place where you have been fulfilled. Where you have known happiness.

So he's got an attitude problem," Alysha said. "I get that. But he'll never stop having an attitude problem if we don't give him the breathing room to stop reacting to years of frustration and bitterness. I got him to come. Now it's up to all of us to make sure he keeps coming.

The dream begins with a teacher who believes in you, who tugs and pushes and leads you to the next plateau, sometimes poking you with a sharp stick called "truth." -Dan Rather In teaching you cannot see the fruit of a day's work. It is invisible and remains so, maybe for twenty years. -Jacques Barzun

In your way that I have come to know and appreciate, you did not say anything. You didn't push me to say more. You waited. Your patience is a gift. You trusted our silence.