Quotes About Patience

Forgiveness is the highest and most difficult of all moral lessons.

Hatred is one long wait.

Redemption comes to those who wait, forgiveness is the key.

Even a stopped clock is right twice a day.

Do not desire crosses, unless you have borne those already laid upon you well — it is an abuse to long after martyrdom while unable to bear an insult patiently.

Bear with the faults of others as you would have them bear with yours.

Forgiveness is divine, but never pay pull price for late pizza.

To be able to bear provocation is an argument of great reason, and to forgive it of a great mind.

The cut worm forgives the plow.

A man can refrain from wanting what he has not and cheerfully make the best of a bird in the hand.

I can always forgive where I understand.

Don't do it quickly, but don't wait too long... If we wait too long to forgive, our rage settles in and claims squatter's rights to our souls.

The Lord never tires of forgiving. It is we who tire of asking for forgiveness.

Who understands much, forgives much.

Ask the gods nothing excessive.

Love in the real world means saying you're sorry 10 times a day.

I think that maybe forgiveness is like change - it comes in small steps. (256)

Anger is a killing thing: it kills the man who angers for each rage leaves him less than he had been before-it takes something from him.

The days are too short even for love how can there be enough time for quarreling?

Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don't make.

Be satisfied and pleased with what thou art Act cheerfully and well thou allotted part Enjoy the present hour be thankful for the past And neither fear nor wish the approaches of the last.

Bear and forbear.

A prison cell, in which one waits, hopes...and is completely dependent on the fact that the door of freedom has to be opened from the outside, is not a bad picture of Advent.

Giving others the freedom to be stupid is one of the most important and hardest steps to take in spiritual progress. Conveniently the opportunity to take that step is all around us every day.