Quotes About Patience

Yet in all this, she was to trust God—and more than that, yes, truly more than that, she was to thank him.

Fear knocked, faith answered. No one was there.

For all things work together for good . . ." he murmured, quoting from the book of Romans. "Use this for good," he prayed.

Thank you for patience that you may reward it, thank you for brokenness that you may mend it, thank you for love that you may enlarge it above our most heartfelt expectations.

It is characteristic of wisdom not to do desperate things.

When I speak of God's will, it helps to know that he wants the best for us. If you can't believe he's there, pray anyway. If you feel he's cheap and withholding, thank him anyway. There will come a time when you'll thank him even for the hard places." "Perhaps somewhere I have the smallest bit of faith," she said, "something left over from my childhood. But it's almost nothing, not enough..." "If you yield it up, God will make it enough.

His style was to give the issue to God and haul it back again, ad infinitum, 'til the cows came home, until the thing finally wore itself out in him.

Fishin' promotes patience, Madelaine! Patience! A boy has t' learn he can't always have what he wants, when he wants it. Look at th' state of th' world. Most of th' troubles t'day come from havin' no patience. An' take perseverance, that's a absolute requirement if a boy's gon' make anything of hisself.

In any decision making, he'd learned to wait for the peace; it was heedless to make a move without it. There was no time for waiting, and yet waiting was imperative.

We are not necessarily doubting," said C. S. Lewis, "that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

In the Thirty-second Psalm, He says, 'I will instruct you, Dooley, and teach you in the way which you should go. I will guide you with my eye.

She was thinking about the future too, though most times it appeared in her mind as a complete blank. 'That's the way the future should appear,' Olivia once said. 'We're asked not to fret about the future and to take no thought for tomorrow. We must try to live in the present or we shall miss it entirely.' Living in the present was exactly what she'd been trying to do.

The terrible timing of it . . . but no, it wasn't terrible timing, it was God's timing and it was perfect, God knew everything there was to know . . . . She needed to remember this every step of the way, one step at a time.

Don't fear whatever God lays before you today

Lord, give me the words, the wisdom, the heart for this, Your will be done. . .

We're not thinking what if,' he said. 'We're thinkin' when.

I said, Thy will be done." "That's the prayer that never fails.

God answers all our heartfelt petitions. He may answer no, or yes, or wait, or maybe. Yet there's one prayer for which he has only one answer, and the answer is yes.' 'Tell me,' she said, sharp. 'Thy will be done.

I try to wait for Him to make the darkness light, then grow afraid and try to create the light on my own.

Still achieving, still pursuing, learn to labor and to wait.

You love him, I can see it.' 'More than anything.' That alone should be enough, he thought, but of course it never is. Courage has to come in there somewhere, and perseverance and forbearance and patience and all the rest. A job of work, as Uncle Billy would say, but worth it and then some.

In any decision making, he'd learned to wait for the peace; it was heedless to make a move without it. There was no time for waiting, and yet waiting was imperative.

In everything give thanks. That was the lifeboat in any crisis. Over and over again he had learned this, and over and over again, he had to be reminded.

You love him, I can see it." "More than anything." That alone should be enough, he thought, but of course it never is. Courage has to come in there somewhere, and perseverance and forbearance and patience and all the rest. A job of work, as Uncle Billy would say, but worth it and then some.