Quotes About Patience

He decides, for whatever years are left to him, to capture the tree and see what the thing looks like, sped up to the rate of human desire.

He waits too long, and time replies for him.

To hope, which finds roots in the most infertile of soils.

It took Drake more than a year to find someone to drill his well. One salt-well driller after another refused him or failed to appear when promised. His standards were high.

But the great mast trees took 80 to 120 years to grow to sufficient diameter. A landowner who planted an acorn could hope his grandchildren or great-grandchildren might harvest it for profit—if the intervening generations could wait so long. Many could not; many did not. Selling timber was an easy means to raise cash; landowners from the king on down took advantage of the opportunity whenever their purses emptied.

In terms of soul work, we dare not get rid of the pain before we have learned what it has to teach us.

You rest in God, not in outcomes.

Do not get rid of your hurts until you have learned all that they have to teach you.

There is no straight line to Goodness, to Love, or to God. And thank God, Grace is always retroactive.

All creation is groaning in one great act of giving birth. — ROMANS 8:22 I still have many things to say to you, but they would be too much for you now. — JOHN 16:12

Contemplation is waiting patiently for the gaps to be filled in, and it does not insist on quick closure or easy answers. It never rushes to judgment, and in fact avoids making quick judgments because judgments have more to do with egoic, personal control than with a loving search for truth.

Contemplation is waiting patiently for the gaps to be filled in, and it does not insist on quick closure or easy answers.

God does not come uninvited. God and grace cannot enter without an opening from our side, or we would be mere robots. God does not want robots, but lovers who freely choose to love in return for love. And toward that supreme end, God seems quite willing to wait, cajole, and entice.

God does not change, but our readiness for such a God takes a long time to change.

in fact, that's largely what it means to be loving. You can hold for them what they cannot yet hold. You can transform for them what they cannot yet transform. You do that by not returning their negativity and fear in kind, as most people will do.

God seems ready and willing to wait for, and to empower, free will and a free "yes." Love only happens in the realm of freedom.

Trust the process.

All that each of us can do is to live in the now that is given. We cannot rush the process;

God never intended most human beings to become philosophers or theologians, but God does want all humans to represent the very Sympathy and Empathy of God. And it's okay if it takes a while to get there.

Be still and wait without hope, for hope would be hope for the wrong thing. —T.S. ELIOT, "East Coker" from the Four Quartets

I must be losing patience with my fellow humans, Miss Beryl went on. Anymore I'm all for executing people who are mean to children. I used to favor just cutting off their feet. Now I want to rid the world of them completely. If this keeps up I'll be voting Republican soon.

I was the one who did come through that door. You were the one she was waiting for.

My favorite teacher in college advised me not to write a book until it was impossible not to.

they were dreamers who felt no urgency about bringing their dreams to fruition.