Quotes About Patience

Does God take care of beasts, and not of his more noble creature? And therefore we ought to judge charitably of the complaints of God's people which are wrung from them in such cases. Job had the esteem with God of a patient man, notwithstanding those passionate complaints.

The entire history of human desire takes about seventy minutes to tell. Unfortunately, we don't have that kind of time.

Bird 1: This is the wrong story. Bird 2: All stories are the wrong story when you are impatient.

Don't make a noise, don't leave the room until I come back from the dead for you. I will come back from the dead for you.

A stone on the path means the tea's not ready, a stone in the hand means somebody's angry, the stone inside you still hasn't hit bottom.

I went to the riverbed to wait for you to show up. You didn't show up. I kept waiting.

I'll be right here. I'm waiting.

But the minutes don't stop. The prayer of going nowhere going nowhere.

You just wanted to prove there was one safe place, just one safe place where you could love him. You have not found that place yet. You have not made that place yet. You are here. You are here. You're still right here.

He beat out a drumroll on the table edge with the first two fingers of each hand.

After nineteen years, he still needed explanations from me. If being willing to speak at length into an unresponsive void isn't one of the cornerstones of a rich relationship and enduring love, what is?

the early worm is likely to get caught.

Richard Turner

Anytime I see someone blocking the aisle in the supermarket while talking on a phone, I want to ram that person with my shopping cart.

After a half hour of sitting and staring at Mister Lewis sitting on his box, Patrick heard the sound of an engine

The fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness and self-control. (Galatians 5:22). While these fruits, qualities, values or characteristics are universally true for all people, how did they find expression, uniquely, in each local culture?

He who cannot rest, cannot work he who cannot let go, cannot hold on he who cannot find footing, cannot go forward.

So at last when I believed Christianity was dead, I said, "Even so, I will believe in it, and I will weep at its tomb until it rises again, as it surely will.

Even the best of Christians are troubled by the question, "Why does an almighty God send, or at least allow, suffering?" When you are nagged by thoughts like this, say to yourself, "I am still in elementary school. When I graduate from the university of Christian life, I will understand His ways better and doubts will cease.

And maybe things like this really did get better of their own accord, if you gave them time; maybe all you could ever do, beyond suffering, was wait and see what might be going to happen next.

In the meantime, and this was the best part, in the meantime it was no longer necessary to dislike them.

You'll piss when you can't whistle

There's nothing worse than waiting and not knowing what'll happen to you. Your own imagination can be crueler than any captor.

Takes a lot of tries before you hit perfection." He paused to reconsider that. "Well, except for my parents. They got it on the first try." (Adrian)