Quotes About Patience

We must never get into the habit of being preoccupied with the future. There is no reason to do so. God is there.

Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken "toys," but as our Father.

Never run before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt-wait.

When I go to bed, I ask God to give me one more day tomorrow. When I get it, I'm excited and grateful.

I sit and talk to God, and he just laughs at my plans.

Though we often wonder why God does what he does, we can be sure he does it on better information.

God is not only all-knowing but all-not-telling.

In the midst of chaos, you've gotta be able to slow it down. That's one of the things that God's gifted me with, it's one of the things that I've trained for, and train for now.

Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.

I know that for me I have to get out of the way and let God take control.

God always has patience.

Garcia wondered why people with JESUS stickers on their bumper always drove twenty miles per hour under the speed limit. If God was my co-pilot, he thought, I'd be doing a hundred and twenty.

I know one of the reasons God gave me kids was to test my patience.

I trust in God, and His ways are not our ways. So we have to go with that, and there's nothing I can do about that.

Hope humbly then; with trembling pinions soar; Wait the great teacher, Death, and God adore; What future bliss He gives not thee to know, But gives that hope to be thy blessing now.

God is always the last resource.

The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.

Whenever your kids are out of control, you can take comfort from the thought that even God's omnipotence did not extend to His kids.

Our afflictions would trouble us much less if we knew God's reason for sending them.

Don't you know that day dawns after night, showers displace drought, and spring and summer follow winter? Then, have hope! Hope forever, for God will not fail you!

Our extremities are God's opportunities.

I can only say with deeper sincerity and fuller significance what I have always said in theory - Wait God's will.

I can but die... and I believe in God. Let me try and wait His will in silence.

The trick to forgetting the big picture is to look at everything close-up. The shortcut to closing a door is to bury yourself in the details. This is how we must look to God. As if everything's fine.