Quotes About Patience

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

God wants to bless us in many ways that require faith. We must trust that He is answering our prayers even when we can't see it.

I could write down twenty cases wherein I wished that God had done otherwise than he did, but which I now see, if I had had my own way, would have led to extensive mischief.

You are only one prayer away from a dream fulfilled, a promise kept, or a miracle performed.

Don't quit. For if you do, you may miss the answer to your prayers.

I never pray on a golf course. Actually, the Lord answers my prayers everywhere except on the course.

Until we have acquired genuine prayer, we are like people teaching children to begin to walk.

What is the use of praying if at the very moment of prayer, we have so little confidence in God that we are busy planning our own kind of answer to our prayer?

Never make the blunder of trying to forecast the way God is going to answer your prayer.

God answers prayer in three ways: yes, no, and wait awhile.

Sigh... I have learned that *everything* is so hard...except what Allah makes easy. So we must *beg* Him to make it easy on us.

We may surprised at whom God sends to answer our prayers.

Faithful servants have a way of knowing answered prayer when they see it, and a way of not giving up when they don't.

Never pray for justice, because you might get some.

Our prayer must be, "Father, I'm waiting for You because I know You are good in what You do and in when you do it.

I find that it takes a lot of years of living, and many more of reckoning, to come up with one worthwhile paragraph. And when a deadline looms, prayer doesnt hurt, either.

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

Lord, I do not ask that Thou shouldst give me wealth; only show me where it is, and I will attend to the rest.

The greatest tragedy in life is the prayers that go unanswered simply because they go unasked.

Be not afraid to pray--to pray is right. Pray, if thou canst, with hope; but ever pray, Though hope be weak or sick with long delay; Pray in the darkness, if there be no light.

One of the earliest religious disappointments in a young girl's life devolves upon her unanswered prayer for a horse.

The trouble with our praying is, we just do it as a means of last resort.

Prayer never works for me on the golf course. That may have something to do with my being a terrible putter.

If I could have one prayer answered, I would pray for patience. I move so fast sometimes. I try to slow down.