Quotes About Patience

Maybe that's why I've always thought of God less as an engineer than as an artist—one who uses our hopes, fears, and dreams, and especially our tears, to paint on the canvas of our souls, rendering something beautiful. The hardest part, I suppose, is waiting to see what He's up to.

Maybe that's why I've always thought of God less as an engineer than as an artist—one who uses our hopes, fears, dreams, and especially our tears, to paint on the canvas of our souls, rendering something beautiful. The hardest part, I suppose, is waiting to see what He's up to.

Never trade what you love for what's behind curtain B. Never.

Truth is patient. It can afford to be, for eventually it will have its way.

We live in a world that's always making us work for love.

Trust is something that's built over time, but it takes faith to make that leap. [Justin Ek)

Nothing is more excruciating than waiting for the jury's verdict. Except, perhaps, hearing the jury's verdict. Alan Christoffersen's diary

but a good writer knows when to shut up and listen.

Love yourself. Respect yourself. And have faith. The older I get, the more I see that things tend to work out. Not always, but usually. Just not in our time.

Sometimes its not the strength but gentleness that cracks the hardest shells.

and sometimes we have to take it on faith that we are actually making progress, getting closer to our destination. Faith. Four months

The years went by, and Mary Alice and I grew up, Slower than we wanted to, faster than we realized.

they'd just tell you to turn the other cheek, wouldn't they?...Trouble is, Mrs. Dowdel observed, after you've turned the other cheek four times, you run out of cheeks.

Your journey will proceed faster with a brief delay.' In other words, don't go off half-cocked, but don't wait until the other fellow shoots you either." A

Long ago, I gave you my soul. Take care of it for me, until I find you again.

There's a Chinese saying. 'When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago.' " The Chinese engineer smiles. "Good one." " 'When is the next best time? Now.' " "Ah! Okay!" The smile turns real. Until today, he has never planted anything. But Now, that next best of times, is long, and rewrites everything.

A great truth comes over him: Trees fall with spectacular crashes. But planting is silent and growth is invisible.

Architecture is a slow business, and city planning even slower.

Faith does not need to push the river because faith is able to trust that there is a river. The river is flowing. We are in it.

Some students are in a hurry to begin "real" pranayama. They go right to the later stages without first laying a quality foundation, and their practice often suffers. First find out what is. This is also part of the answer to the question Who am I?

Just because things happen slow doesn't mean you'll be ready for them. If they happened fast, you'd be alert for all kinds of suddenness, aware that speed was trump. "Slow" works in an altogether different principle, on the deceptive impression that there's plenty of time to prepare, which conceals the central fact, that no matter how slow things go, you'll always be slower.

There will be a time when loud-mouthed, incompetent people seem to be getting the best of you. When that happens, you only have to be patient and wait for them to self destruct. It never fails.

In recognition that any good idea is a fragile thing, you have to give it a few minutes to breath—like a good red wine.

Some think it strength of grace to endure nothing in the weaker, whereas the strongest are readiest to bear with the infirmities of the weak.