Quotes About Patience

Maybe you done stepped aroun' th' Lord an' tryin' to lead th' way.

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. 'Thy will be done.' There is a caveat. One must pray it with a surrendered heart.

We think we dare not be satisfied with the small measure of spiritual knowledge, experience and love that has been given to us, and that we must constantly be looking forward eagerly for the highest good.' 

Something you'd written in a margin," said George, "I can't remember where…'The significant, life-forming times are the dull, in-between times.

St. Francis de Sales had spoken ably to that: "Do not look forward to what may happen tomorrow; the same everlasting Father who cares for you today will take care of you tomorrow and every day. Either He will shield you from suffering, or He will give you unfailing strength to bear it.

Leave it alone. Let God handle it.

Loving can be hard. Sometimes we don't feel loving, but it isn't all about feeling. Very often it is about will. Practice that if you can.

A dokÄ…d wyroku   Mars nie uczyni, nie ustÄ™puj kroku.

to follow God does not often mean traveling with certainty about where God will lead us. Rather, following God propels us to be present to the place where we are, for this is the very place where God shows up.

Alice twists a lock of her hair as she sucks on her straw and swivels back and forth on her seat. The shush of the ball bearings sounds like the sea to her, like waves retreating through the sand. She is a thousand miles away. I know this, but I'm not going to let her know I know.

It wasn't what Connie asked for. But it was what God was pleased to give her.

In some instances we saw how God had changed our requests, transformed our desires, and then given us things that we didn't know we wanted until he placed them in our hands.

Another hour or two delaying

When you sat in the dark every day, it was hard to know how much time passed.

only one road out here." "Just stay cool," I said. "They're probably

this settled, the more likely that Ida

Mothers have to do a poo in four parts because a child will cry, and then they try and finish off but the child needs them again!

The little bit (two inches wide) of ivory on which I work with so fine a brush as produces little effect after much labor.

Angry people are not always wise.

If you can control your behavior when everything around you is out of control, you can model for your children a valuable lesson in patience and understanding...and snatch an opportunity to shape character.

There is a little dull ache for Oblomov and his dreams. Man does not live by bread alone, not even by the most wholesome bread punctually served. There is dream-stuff as well as bread-stuff. Sometimes man's strength is to sit still.

You can do one of two things; just shut up, which is something I don't find easy, or learn an awful lot very fast, which is what I tried to do.

For years of our lives the days pass waywardly, featureless, without meaning, without particular happiness or unhappiness. Then, like turning over a tapestry when you have only known the back of it, there is spread the pattern.

Anyone can live in a house, but homes are created with patience, time and love.