Quotes About Patience

The Lord's Prayer may be committed to memory quickly, but it is slowly learnt by heart.

Perhaps you will have to spend hours on your knees or upon your face before the throne. Never mind. Wait. God will do great things for you if you will wait for Him. Yield to Him. Cooperate with Him.

I never prayed sincerely and earnestly for anything but it came at some time; no matter at how distant a day, somehow, in some shape, probably the least I would have devised, it came.

Being a godly father requires much perseverance and prayer as we seek God's guidance in being the types of fathers He wants us to be.

As God's child advances spiritually be shall discover that the Lord's time is as important as the Lord's will. Do not rashly beget an Ishmael lest he become the greatest enemy to Isaac.

The prayer that begins with trustfulness, and passes on into waiting, will always end in thankfulness, triumph, and praise.

I have lived to thank God that all my prayers have not been answered.

If we would talk less and pray more about them, things would be better than they are in the world: at least, we should be better enabled to bear them.

Don't pray when it rains if you don't pray when the sun shines.

God's purposes and plans will not fail. Before you spend all your prayer time telling Him about yours, ask about His.

Do not be troubled if you do not immediately receive from God what you ask Him; for He desires to do something even greater for you, while you cling to Him in prayer.

Allah will never disappoint the sincere caller. Even when you think He hasn't answered you, He plans in your favor.

Love is the fruit of prayer ... Patiently abiding in prayer signifies a man's renunciation of himself. Therefore the self-denial of the soul turns into love for God.

Persistence with patience and prayer pays with profits, prosperity and peace of mind.

God will either give you what you ask, or something far better.

If you bury your face in your tear-stained pillow and beg God to please send you your soul mate, may you not slur your words in such a way that they sound like "cell mate."

The Prayer of the sick person is his patience and his acceptance of his sickness for the love of Jesus Christ. Make sickness itself a prayer, for there is none more powerful, save martyrdom!

What we most need is the prayer of fervent desire for growth in grace, expressed in patience, meekness, love, and good deeds.

Trials make the promise sweet, Trials give new life to prayer; Trials bring me to His feet, Lay me low, and keep me there.

You pay God a compliment by asking great things of Him.

Jesus taught that perseverance is the essential element in prayer.

If you patiently accept what comes, you will always pray with joy.

If you are sick, fast and pray; if the language is hard to learn, fast and pray; if the people will not hear you, fast and pray, if you have nothing to eat, fast and pray.

The sky may be overcast today with clouds, but a fervent prayer to God is enough to dispel them.