Quotes About Patience

The same moon is still up there. The same stars that Abraham saw... And I know that the same God who put them there and made them shine, He's still there too... And I know that God does not lie. ...We don't need to judge God's way of doing stuff. It gets done.

The problem with long-term investing is the short term.

The problem with long-term investing is the short term. Nothing destroys a good long-term plan like extreme short-term volatility. That throws people off track, and they often do things that are emotional rather than rational.

Krasus raced along the landscape. all sense of dignity forgotten. Dignity was for those with both time and patience, commodities not available to him and his companion.

na dis aperit, cnficit na dis. (Ausonius Ros. Nasc.

Facis tua computat anns. (Juvenal

You're trying to eat grass that isn't there. Why don't you give it a chance to grow?

Shake and shake the catsup bottle. None will come, and then a lot'll.

The gulls who scorn perfection for the sake of travel go nowhere, slowly. Those who put aside travel for the sake of perfection go anywhere, instantly.

If people just took it a day at a time, they'd be a lot happier.

If you run through all five and go back to the beginning and run through all five again and go back to the beginning and run through all five again really, really fast, what will happen is that you'll begin to feel fed up. There'll be a point where something inside you says, Enough is enough.

Turn frustration into fascination.

Preaching a man a sermon with a broken head and telling him to be right with God is equal to telling a man with a broken leg to get up and run a race.

Till you can rest in God's will you will never have rest.

While doubt cannot be expelled, it can be subdued.

There is a great deal of duty that husband and wife owe to one another, such as to instruct, admonish, pray, watch over one another, and be continual helpers to each other in order to their everlasting happiness; they must also patiently bear with the infirmities of each other.

O]ur applications are quicker about our sufferings, than our sins(77)[.]

As Socrates said when his wife first railed at him, and next threw a vessel of foul water upon him, "I thought when I heard the thunder, there would come rain

Alert expectancy. What an exciting way to look at things! Our faith in Christ gives us the opportunity to live in a state of alert expectancy; patiently waiting for what God will do next. People who choose this path will one day look back in amazement at what God did.

There will be times when you do not comprehend why He allows certain things to occur, and that is to be expected.

Whenever it seems that God is not doing anything fresh in your life, focus on the love relationship and stay there until God gives you a new assignment.

Live for the present –' I heard my parents' old maxim in the back of my head '– and the future will look after itself.

hard-won things are more valuable than those that come too easily.

I wrote on the envelope that it was not to be opened until the following day but then gave it to a boy who I knew was far too nosy not to open it immediately.