Quotes About Patience

Pray to God but keep rowing to shore.

Trust in Allah but tie your camel first.

You can do more than pray after you have prayed but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

Some people think that prayer just means asking for things and if they fail to receive exactly what they asked for they think the whole thing is a fraud.

There are three answers to prayer: yes no and wait awhile. It must be recognized that no is an answer.

There are four ways God answers prayer: No not yet No I love you too much Yes I thought you'd never ask Yes and here's more.

God answers all true prayer either in kind or in kindness.

Our understanding of God is the answer to prayer getting things from God is God's indulgence of us. When God stops giving us things He brings us into the place where we can begin to understand Him.

You say "But He has not answered." He has He is so near to you that His silence is the answer. His silence is big with terrific meaning that you cannot understand yet but presently you will.

God's silences are His answers. If we only take as answers those that are visible to our senses we are in a very elementary condition of grace.

The greatest blessing of prayer is not receiving the answer but being the kind of person God can trust with His answer.

Never was a faithful prayer lost. Some prayers have a longer voyage than others but then they return with their richer lading at last so that the praying soul is a gainer by waiting for an answer.

Sometimes ... God answers our prayers in the way our parents do who reply to the pleas of their children with "Not just now" or "I'll have to think about that for a little while."

Our prayers run along one road and God's answers by another and by and by they meet.

Asking for anything is allowed with the understanding that God's answers come from God's perspective. They are not always in harmony with our expectations for only He knows the whole story.

Just when I need Him He is my all Answering when upon Him I call Tenderly watching lest I should fall.

It is hard to wait and press and pray and hear no voice but stay till God answers.

Our Lord never referred to unanswered prayer he taught that prayers are always answered. He ever implied that prayers were answered rightly because of the Heavenly Father's wisdom.

If God does not give you something you ask for wait on Him. He will speak with you tenderly and sympathetically about the matter until you yourself understand that He cannot grant your prayer.

True prayer always receives what it asks for-or something better.

Be thankful that God's answers are wiser than your answers.

God punishes us mildly by ignoring our prayers and severely by answering them.

They never sought in vain that sought the Lord aright!

He that will learn to pray let him go to Sea.