Quotes About Patience

I have learned not to worry about love; but to honor its coming with all my heart.

Good shit takes time. Extend time, bend time, crip time.

We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be." —C. S. Lewis (1898–1963)3

Patience grows well in such soil. She is the ally of a soul that makes God its primary pursuit,

But in anonymous seasons we must hold tightly to the truth that no doubt strengthened Jesus throughout his hidden years: Father God is neither care-less nor cause-less with how he spends our lives. When he calls a soul simultaneously to greatness and obscurity, the fruit—if we wait for it—can change the world.

No matter how we rationalize, God will sometimes seem unfair from the perspective of a person trapped in time. . . . Not until history has run its course will we understand how 'all things work together for good.' Faith means believing in advance what will only make sense in reverse." — PHILIP YANCEY

When those pauses extend beyond what we can comprehend or explain (say, for instance, three days), we often spiral into selfdoubt or second-guessing. But in anonymous seasons we must hold tightly to the truth that no doubt strengthened Jesus throughout his hidden years: Father God is neither care-less nor cause-less with how he spends our lives. When he calls a soul simultaneously to greatness and obscurity, the fruit—if we wait for it—can change the world.

Jesus appears to have walked unstressed and unhurried. His peaceful pace seems to imply that he measured himself not by where he was going and how fast he could get there but by whom he was following and how closely they walked together. Patience grows well in such soil. She is the ally of a soul that makes God its primary pursuit, because in this journey called life, regardless of the scenery, such a soul is deeply contented in the Company.

The Father's work in us does not sleep—though in spiritual winters he retracts all advertisement. And when he does so, he is purifying our faith, strengthening our character, conserving our energy, and preparing us for the future. The sleepy days of winter hide us so that seductive days of summer will not ruin us.

When you love someone, you love their journey—

No matter how far you are. No matter how long it takes him. Through Distance And Time I'll be waiting ..

I have all faith in you. I will look to your coming when spring walks in the land.

While the heart beats, hope lingers.

You see aright. I am both Queen and Elidhu, here and there, wildfire and hearthfire, forgetting and remembrance. But do no yet speak of this, for men are impatient with such things and do not brook contradiction.

I must bear it well as I may. As my sainted mother used to say, we never come to the kingdom of Heaven but by troubles.

We can do more than pray, after we have prayed, but not until.

peoples who have been waiting for their independence for a century, fighting for it for a generation, can afford to sit out a presidential term, or a year or two in the life of an old man in a hurry;

To all things an end. To every night a dawn. Even to longest night when dawn never comes, there comes, at last, the dawn.

Haste is good only in catching fleas.

But thinking never took away tears. Only time did.

He and Marten may be needles in a haystack, but straw by straw the hay is being taken away. It's only a matter of time, hours at most, before the floor is bare and the needles and right there in front of us.

la pobreza es para los unos la prueba de la paciencia y de la resignación, y la riqueza es para los otros la prueba de la caridad y de la abnegación.

Cristo vino y dijo: Volved bien por mal. Dijo más: "No os resistáis al mal que os quieran hacer; "sí os hieren en una mejilla presentadles la otra".

perdonar las ofensas es reconocer que uno se vuelve mejor. Perdonad, pues, amigos míos, a fin de que Dios os perdone, porque sois duros, exigentes, inflexibles, y si además tenéis rigor por una ligera ofensa, ¿cómo queréis que Dios olvide, cuando todos los días tenéis gran necesidad de indulgencia?