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Quotes About Patience

You always enter God's hospital as a charity patient. You can't pay your way.
~ Vance Havner
If after so much effort and prayer, the matter is not successful, it will be a clear sign that God does not will it.
~ Vincent de Paul
Good works are often spoiled by moving too quickly. . . . The good which God desires is accomplished almost by itself, without our even thinking of it.
~ Vincent de Paul
Never betray His principles for any reason whatsoever, and take great care not to spoil God's affairs by too much haste in them.
~ Vincent de Paul
If you take two steps towards God,' he used to tell me, 'God runs to you!
~ Yann Martel
God has administered to us of the present age, a bitter draught and a harsh physician, on account of our abounding infirmities.
~ Desiderius Erasmus
A great means to preserve continual peace and tranquillity of soul is to receive everything from the hands of God, both great and small, and in whatever way it comes.
~ Dorotheus of Gaza
It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.
~ Elisabeth Elliot
I think God always has the best for us.
~ Ernie Harwell
Pray always for all the learned, the oblique, the delicate. Let them not be quite forgotten at the throne of God when the simple come into their kingdom.
~ Evelyn Waugh
I found it better for my soul to be humble before the mysteries o' God's dealings, and not be making a clatter about what I could never understand.
~ George Eliot
It takes a long while for a naturally trustful person to reconcile himself to the idea that after all God will not help him
~ H. L. Mencken
Did not God Sometimes withhold in mercy what we ask, We should be ruined at our own request.
~ Hannah More
Whatever we leave to God, God does and blesses us.
~ Henry David Thoreau
God plants no yearning in the human soul that he does not intend to satisfy.
~ Henry Ward Beecher
Give God the margin of eternity to justify himself.
~ Hugh Reginald Haweis
You know why the road curves as you're driving along? It curves because if God showed us the distance from where we are to where we're going, we'd think it was too far.
~ Iyanla Vanzant
God is never late, but He sure is slow.
~ James N. Watkins
God stays faithful to us in spite of our repeated failures.
~ Jennifer Rothschild
Those physical difficulties which you cannot account for, be very slow to arraign; for he that would be wiser than Nature would be wiser than God.
~ Jeremy Bentham
We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.
~ John Piper
she held her breath, and in her head, counted seconds. She pretended that for each second she didn't breathe, God would grant her another day
~ Khaled Hosseini
God has made many doors opening into truth which He opens to all who knock upon them with hands of faith.
~ Khalil Gibran
For I begin with writing the first sentence, — and trusting to Almighty God for the second.
~ Laurence Sterne