Quotes About Patience

This "rhythm method" can help anyone besieged by such micromanaging pleasure seekers: try to slow things down, make THEM squirm and suffer as much as you can, and train them to back off and wait. They might just stop badgering you—and turn their attention to more responsive and thus more satisfying targets instead.

We were taught that the more irate the debtor—the more he or she screamed, swore, and insulted us—the more long pauses we should take before answering questions and the more slowly and calmly we should talk.

And sometimes—if you are observant and patient—being invisible gives you access to information that can help you turn the tables on powerful assholes.

part of what makes for a skilled consultant, teacher, barista, or other service employee is the ability to deal with jerks in ways that calm them, protect your dignity and sanity, and still keep the money rolling in.

He has correspondingly planned His will to unfold in one-day increments. While we do our best to ascertain what God has for us in the future and plan our calendars accordingly, we can live only in one-day increments.

The hypermature man wants laughter, warmth, and closeness, but doesn't know how to achieve them and has difficulty letting himself go long enough to try. Change is slow for him, and he needs a patient partner who can see a great person behind the seriousness. Besides, he will never let you down.

You have to sow before you can reap. You have to give before you can get.

Now when these things begin to happen, look up and lift up your heads, because your redemption draws near. – Luke 21:28

For who has despised the day of small things? – Zechariah 4:10

Robert J. Morgan

It teaches us the power of patience regarding life events. We must trust His timing and our hearts must give Him time to align the circumstances for our good. Why are so many of my prayer requests not immediately answered? Perhaps God is patiently waiting until all the circumstances are correctly aligned for the widest possible fulfillment of those requests or aspirations. The same keen, impeccable sense of divine timing that sent Jesus into the world at the optimum

The Lord Jesus Christ is Alpha and Omega, the Beginning and the End, the First and the Last. He knows the end from the beginning, and sometimes so-called delays occur in life because God is aligning circumstances for our benefit. We have to wait on Him and trust Him, knowing His timing is as perfect as He is.

Jesus answered and said to him, "What I am doing you do not understand now, but you will know after this." – John 13:7

Galatians 5:22 But the fruit of the Spirit is love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faith.

My brethren, count it all joy when you fall into various trials, knowing that the testing of your faith produces patience. – James 1:2–3

Patient plodding produces durable results.

In Thine own good time, so order the things in our life that we may end in the calm, quiet peace of those whose hearts are stayed upon God. —George Dawson (1821

I will lead them in paths they have not known. I will make darkness light before them, and crooked places straight.These things I will do for them, and not forsake them. – Isaiah 42:16

Rejoicing in hope, patient in tribulation, continuing steadfastly in prayer. – Romans 12:12

Proverbs 3:5 Trust in the LORD with all your heart, and do not rely on your own understanding.

Robert J. Morgan

2010 by Robert J. Morgan

Now we see in a mirror, dimly, but then face to face. – 1 Corinthians 13:12

God doesn't waste suffering. If He leads us into impossible spots, He will deliver us in His own time, in His own way, and for His name's sake.