Quotes About Patience

London radio, which we listened to every evening, announced encouraging news: the daily bombings of Germany and Stalingrad, the preparation of the Second Front. And so we, the Jews of Sighet, waited for better days that surely were soon to come.

Do not make fun of God, even if He is making fun of you.

Questo minuto aveva più di sessanta secondi.

You have to learn when to ignore suffering so that you're strong enough to fight it when the time is right.

The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived - not always looked forward to as though the real living were around the next corner. It is today for which we are responsible. God still owns tomorrow.

The will of God is never exactly what you expect it to be. It may seem to be much worse, but in the end it's going to be a lot better and a lot bigger.

By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.

We never know what God has up His sleeve. You never know what might happen; you only know what you have to do now.

Don't dig up in doubt what you planted in faith.

Single life may be only a stage of a life's journey, but even a stage is a gift. God may replace it with another gift, but the receiver accepts His gifts with thanksgiving. This gift for this day. The life of faith is lived one day at a time, and it has to be lived—not always looked forward to as though the "real" living were around the next corner. It is today for which we are responsible. God still owns tomorrow.

When ours are interrupted, his are not. His plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always (including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable).

Waiting silently is the hardest thing of all. I was dying to talk to Jim and about Jim. But the things that we feel most deeply we ought to learn to be silent about, at least until we have talked them over thoroughly with God.

It is in our acceptance of what is given that God gives Himself.

Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future, I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now.

God has promised to supply our needs. What we don't have now we don't need now.

My heart was saying, Lord, take away this longing, or give me that for which I long. The Lord was answering, I must teach you to long for something better.

The work of God is done on God's timetable. His answers to our prayers come always in time--His time. His thoughts are far higher than ours, His wisdom past understanding.

I beg women to wait. Wait on God. Keep your mouth shut. Don't expect anything until the declaration is clear and forthright. And to the men I say be careful with us, please. Be circumspect.

He says no in order that He may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes. All His ways with us are merciful. His meaning is always love.

Let not him who accepts light in an instant despise him who gropes months in shadows.

God withholds blessing only in wisdom, never in spite or aloofness.

Cold prayers, like cold suitors, are seldom effective in their aims.

Do The Next Thing..

Some of God's greatest mercies are in his refusals. He says no in order that he may, in some way we cannot imagine, say yes.