Quotes About Patience

After all, it had been…how long since his last sexual encounter? He did some mental math: carry the one, make the seven an eight…multiply by pi…add the square root of sixty-two…do the hokeypokey and turn yourself around…When he saw the final number, he immediately erased the blackboard. No way could it have

But to be quite oneself one must first waste a little time.

Teach me to treat all that comes to me with peace of soul and with firm conviction that Your will governs all.

He is always doing something--the very best thing, the thing we ourselves would certainly choose if we knew the end from the beginning. He is at work to bring us to our full glory.

Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in dark tunnels.

Each time you turn your life issues over to God and allow Him to lead, you build trust in Him.

Trust holds fast, standing firm until deliverance arrives or a solution is found.

We cannot see beyond the door, we know not what he hath in store, we can but bow our hearts and pray, for strength to serve Him day by day

God's ways and His will come in His own perfect time.

Amid the joy of raising children will be some of the hardest work you'll ever do.

My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials. James 1:2

Count it all joy…when you fall into various trials (JAMES 1:2).

When we don't understand, like, or agree with the way life has gone, we are to bow before God and once again confess that we cannot understand His wisdom and knowledge

Make no decision without prayer!

God's purposes are achieved through the whole of your life, not in fragments of a moment, a day, or a year.

Matt thought, as though he couldn't count the weeks for himself.

My boy," he said quietly, "we have not forgotten. We feel as you do. In his heart every Jew grieves at our captivity. We have need of patriotism like yours. But we have need also of patience. We must not say we cannot endure what God in His judgment has visited upon us." "But how long—must we endure it for ever?" "God has not spoken His final word. Until He does, it is our part to endure.

At some point, you gotta let go, and sit still, and allow contentment to come to you.

Plant an expectation; reap a disappointment. (Quoting an old adage)

But if you can plant yourself in stillness long enough, you will, in time, experience the truth that everything (both uncomfortable and lovely) does eventually pass.

Go back to bed', said the omniscient interior voice, because you don't need to know the final answer right now, at three o'clock in the morning on the Thursday in November. 'Go back to bed', because I love you. 'Go back to bed', beacause the only thing you need to do for now is get some rest and take good care of yourself until you do know the answer.

Liz, you must be very polite with yourself when you are learning something new.

Time -- when pursued like a bandit -- will behave like one; always remaining one country or one room ahead of you, changing its name and hair color to elude you, slipping ou the back door of the motel just as you're banging through the lobby with your newest search warrant, leaving only a burning cigarette in the ashtray to taunt you.

God waited me out.