Quotes About Patience

We honor God by choosing to trust Him when we don't understand what He is doing or why He has allowed some adverse circumstance to occur.

Paul acknowledged what we must acknowledge if we are to trust God. God's plan and His way of working out His plan are frequently beyond our ability to fathom and understand. We must learn to trust when we don't understand.

In order to trust God, we must always view our adverse circumstances through the eyes of faith, not of sense.

You may have sought and tried to obtain instant godliness. There is no such thing....We want somebody to give us three easy steps to godliness, and we'll take them next Friday and be godly. The trouble is, godliness doesn't come that way. ~Jay Adams~

God had brought a "crooked" event into my life, and I became acutely aware that only He could straighten it. Could I trust God whether or not He

God had brought a "crooked" event into my life, and I became acutely aware that only He could straighten it. Could I trust God whether or not He straightened my "crook" and relieved my distress?

Could I trust Him even if I didn't understand?

we reduce God's control over our lives to a stop-and-go, in-and-out proposition.

How do we view those who do not show love for us? Do we see them as persons for whom Christ died or as persons who make our lives difficult? I

when we complain about the weather, we are actually complaining against God

How futile and even arrogant for us to seek to determine what God is doing in a particular event or circumstance.

the faith to trust God in adversity comes through the Word of God alone.

Whatever our particular calamity or adversity may be, we may be sure that our Father has a loving purpose in it.

Paul acknowledged what we must acknowledge if we are to trust God. God's plan and His ways of working out His plan are frequently beyond our ability to fathom and understand. We must learn to trust when we don't understand.

wishes" (4:17) and: He

God owes me no explanation. He has the right to do what He wants, when He wants, and how He wants. Why? Because He's God. . .

So we should never ask why in the sense of demanding that God explain or justify His actions or what He permits in our lives.

Therefore do not worry about tomorrow" (Matthew 6: 34).

If you stop and think about it, you will realize that most godly character traits can only be developed through adversity.

But God never explains to us what He is doing, or why. There is no indication that God ever explained to Job the reasons for all of his terrible sufferings.

contrast, there are sixteen whys in the book of Job, according to author Don Baker.6 Sixteen times Job asked God why. He is persistent and petulant. He is accusatory toward God. And, as has been observed by many, God never answered Job's why. Instead He answered who.

to stop asking why.

asking a demanding why of God.

Our first priority in times of adversity is to honor and glorify God by trusting Him.