Quotes About Patience

I knew the Almighty could and would do what He wished, when He wished to do it. Yet, pragmatic woman that I was, I wished to know His reasons. Actually, I longed for more than that. I wished God would listen to my advice and adjust His will to match mine.

For the rest of my life I'm going to trust that God is always at work in all things, and give Him thanks long before my simplest prayers are answered.

Good ol' Rex, always the bridesmaid, never the bride.

Only people who understand that Christianity is true to the real world are capable of the relaxed confidence that allows them to be open, patient, and loving toward those who differ from them.

Your mama coming back. Just cause you cant sees a person aint mean nothing. They still there. You worry you never gonna find your mama but she gonna come to you. Close your eyes. I bets you see her good.

I love you so very much I don't even mind that life made me wait so long to find you. The waiting only made the finding sweeter.

God has a plan for each of us and that while we might not understand His plan now, eventually we will.

Forgiveness is not a commodity that can be handed out. It is a relationship that must be entered into. — Karl Rahner

so you won't see anything spectacular for a while. There's mostly farmland

Your generation does everything so fast I think you've forgotten how to enjoy the pleasures of going slow.

Daughters primarily need love and security. This is why a critical spirit is so destructive. Remember, we want our children to have fat, prospering souls. Criticism and impatience destroy rather than build up. Daughters need to feel important, loved, accepted, needed, wanted, and appreciated. Mothers must be diligent to praise their daughters, not for their achievements primarily, but for who they are.

bless us and deliver us. He will not forsake us. As my husband is fond of saying, "God loves cliff-hangers." He loves to deliver us at the last moment to see if we will trust Him and not flinch.

Complaining and grumbling and murmuring are discontent's ugly sisters, and God hates them all.

Georgie) I hated going to the playground EVERYDAY. If someone had only told me it wouldn't last forever

A year may be easy, but its days are hard indeed.

All things, when measured in spans of years, seem simple. But human lives do not occur in years but slowly, day by day. A year may be easy, but its days are hard indeed.

There are no shortcuts. Not to understanding and not to knowledge. You can't put anyone into a box. Listen, even a stone isn't the same as any other stone,

Shikataganai, desho

But the world I wanted wasn't the world I lived in, and if I would do nothing until I could repair every terrible thing at once, I would do nothing forever.

He who gives life, nourishes life. He listens, this I can tell you. Whatever happens, He's listening. He doesn't always answer right away. He doesn't always say yes. But He's listening. This much I promise you.

You must not fight too often with one enemy, or you will teach him all your art of war.

One must never ask of fortune more than she can grant

Since sixt week j learn the Englich and j do not any progress. Six week do fourty and two day. If might have learn fivity word four day I could konow it two thusands and two hundred.

Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.