Quotes About Patience

There's nothing remotely glamorous about waiting hand and foot on a fusspot like Opal, but what a pinched and useless life we'd lead if our only goal was glamour.

The Good Humor man can only be pushed so far.

Once, it was so damned dry, the bushes followed the dogs around.

I can hardly wait to read it all. But it seems I don't have three minutes to rub together. Some time soon I will take it on, maybe when Charlie is a few months older.

But I saved my breath. The likes of her isn't going to listen nor be changed in the mind just from hearing sense. Some people sense is wasted on and that's purely a fact.

Being the one doing something is always so much easier than being the one waiting.

People's souls are like gardens. You can't turn your back on someone because his garden's full of weeds. You have to give him water and lots of sunshine.

Slow people are just paying close attention.

Patience and love can do anything.

Mi nana diría que valdrá la pena cuando llegues a la cima. Y yo te diría que sigas escalando, pero que no esperes llegar a la cima mañana. No intentes ser perfecta para otra gente.

Let's make this a slow ride, shall we?" The deep purr of her voice brought a sassy grin to his face. The long slant of his eyes grew languid. "You have the reins, cher. You can whip me with them if you like.

Though it is hard to wait on God, and though it sometimes seems to us that God is slow, God's timing is always perfect. He is never late. He always acts at just the right time.

Tugwell had no patience for the illusion of democracy, or the pretense of being a man of the people, or the empty rhetoric of equal opportunity.

You have no idea when or how God will answer your prayers, but don't stop praying.

In every situation and circumstance of your life, God is always doing a thousand different things that you cannot see and you do not know.

She felt her future close upon her but unseen, like the sea behind the blowing veil of snow... She would follow Llyr's advice and face it a little every day...Day by day, step by step life would go forward. Eventually, the veil would lift, the cold would yield to the sun's warmth, and the world would be reborn. This dark time would pass.

God's Love is a Love that keeps on loving even when the object of that Love ceases to please or even tries to stop that Love from coming.

Though everything in my life is upside down, and I don't understand a thing that You are doing, I will still hope in Your Love and faithfulness.

Romans 4:18, "hope against hope.

Our expectations and hopes were for something else, but He knew exactly what we needed to be stretched and changed. And, thus, we need to lay even our hopes and expectations on the altar.

listen for the Lord's will in everything; and don't lean on your own understanding.

God's ways cannot be fully explained, for He sees the big picture while we only see a small slice.

And though I continually fight impatience, in all but this vice... I am truly content.

There is no such thing as luck. God arranged for our paths to cross in order to give me His assurance and the truth, and so I thank Him, and you. Good day." ... Although she was teeming with anger, humiliation, and grief, she didn't react as she had done in the past... Instead, she crossed the room with slow deliberation, feeling the gentle sway of her skirt, hearing the subtle rustle of her petticoats, conscious of the beat of her heart.