Quotes About Patience

She knelt over the grave, until her nose was touching the dirt. "When you are ready to inhabit a new skin," she said, "we will be waiting for you.

remember that God uses conflict to stretch and mold us, and oftentimes he won't deliver us out of the fire. Instead, he wants us to walk through it. You can pray all you want, but sometimes, conflict is just going to happen.

Hope is the feeling you have that the feeling you have isn't permanent. —JEAN KERR

I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. I know what it is to be in need, and I know what it is to have plenty. I have learned the secret of being content in any and every situation, whether well fed or hungry, whether living in plenty or in want. I can do all this through him who gives me strength" (Philippians 4:11–13).

IF WE ARE very forbearing, then something we would normally consider very painful will not appear so bad after all. But without patient endurance, even the smallest thing becomes unbearable. A lot depends on our attitude.

When a burden is given to us from the Lord, it does not lose its strength with the passage of time but rather gains intensity.

While you saying, 'Scat, scat,' someone else is 'round the corner sayin, 'Here, kitty-kitty.

Love needs time, and time is the air love breathes, and people have no time.

keep telling you I'm just trying to get my life together and then I'll be able to buy you," he said, stroking her hair.

People who think they need high-pressure methods or tools—pinch collars or electric appliances—to train a dog have no clue how to train a dog well. Training, both as a hobby and as a profession, should be pleasant for the dog and the handler. It should be a successful learning process that yields progress for both parties. If training becomes a torment for the handler or the dog, then both parties are on the wrong track.

If you want to be contentious wait until you learn what you have to contend with. It works better that way.

Wolfe: 'Our next step is obvious, but it must wait...' Archie: It was nice to know the next step was obvious, but it would have been even nicer to know what it was.

No. The morning will do. You're impetuous." He looked at the wall clock. Fritz would come any minute to announce dinner. "Can you get Saul now?

If he does it right and is lucky, in nine or 10 months he scoops the tiny half-inch seedlings out of the bottle and plants them in community pots. A year later he transplants them to individual three-inch pots and in another two years to 4 1/2-inch pots, and crosses his fingers. Then, five or six or seven years since the day he put pollen to stigma, he sees an orchid no one ever saw before. It is different from any orchid that has ever bloomed, including those in the Garden of Eden.

By that time I would have been chewing on a railroad spike if I had had one, and Wolfe was working hard trying to be serene. Between nine-thirty and ten-thirty he made four trips to the bookshelves, trying different ones, setting a record.

Old Time is never discreet or tactful.

But he wouldn't find me in the office, sitting there like patience in the hoosegow.

You are headstrong and I am magisterial. Our tolerance of each other is a constantly recurring miracle.

Stand up at sunrise and meet what they send you.

Being gentle puts compassion to work and overrides your need to be right

Relationships are like soup: they are better the longer they simmer

Faith is to believe that which you do not yet see; and the reward of this faith is to see that which you believe. - Saint Augustine of Hippo P.g64

No importa cómo sea ahora tu carácter, la gratitud te dará más paciencia, comprensión, compasión y amabilidad, hasta el punto que no te reconocerás.

Gratitude makes relationships flourish. As you increase your gratitude for any relationship, you will magically receive an abundance of happiness and good things in that relationship. And gratitude for your relationships doesn't change only your relationships; it also changes you. No matter what your temperament is now, gratitude will give you more patience, understanding, compassion, and kindness, to the point where you won't even recognize yourself.