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Quotes About Patience

Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
~ Saadi
Nothing ever goes away until it has taught us what we need to know.
~ Pema Chodron
Today is mine. Tomorrow is none of my business. If I peer anxiously into the fog of the future I will strain my spiritual eyes so that I will not see clearly what is required of me now!
~ Elisabeth Elliot
Never be in a hurry; do everything quietly and in a calm spirit. Do not lose your inner peace for anything whatsoever, even if your whole world seems upset.
~ Saint Francis de Sales
There is a secret medicine given only to those who hurt so hard they can't hope. The hopers would feel slighted if they knew.
~ Rumi
Keep walking, though there's no place to get to. Don't try to see through the distances. That's not for human beings. Move within, But don't move the way fear makes you move.
~ Rumi
Pray, Hope, and Don't Worry
~ Pio of Pietrelcina
Spiritual maturity is not knowing what to do with your whole life, but just knowing what to do next.
~ Henri Nouwen
Be very very still and allow every new experience to take place in your life without any resistance whatsoever. You do not have to do anything, you simply have to be and let things happen.
~ Eileen Caddy
One-half of the ills of life come because men are unwilling to sit down quietly for thirty minutes to think through all the possible consequences of their acts.
~ Blaise Pascal
Genuine happiness consists in those spiritual qualities of love, compassion, patience, tolerance and forgiveness and so on. For it is these which provide both for our happiness and others happiness.
~ Dalai Lama
I hate how hard spiritual transformation is and how long it takes. I hate thinking about how many people have gone to church for decades and remain joyless or judgmental or bitter or superior.
~ John Ortberg
Expect much from yourself and little from others and you will avoid incurring resentments
~ Confucius
Healing can be a long and winding road or a straightforward march to the finish line.
~ Alice McCall
All information of a spiritual or personal nature will have to come from our father, who art in heaven, and I think he's in New York right now.
~ Joseph Mitchell
You have not failed until you quit trying.
~ Gordon B. Hinckley
Amethyst is a meditative and calming stone that works in the emotional, spiritual, and physical planes to provide calm, balance, patience, and peace.
~ Miranda Kerr
Never place a time limit on the healing. That is dictating to the spiritual intelligence that does its perfect work when it is not impeded by your questions and false beliefs.
~ Raymond Charles Barker
Acting on even a twig of faith allows God to grow it.
~ Henry B. Eyring
I know you're tired but come, this is the way.
~ Jalaluddin Rumi
Spirituality doesn't look like sitting down and meditating. Spirituality looks like folding the towels in a sweet way and talking kindly to the people in the family eve though you've had a rough day.
~ Sylvia Boorstein
To hope does not mean to know the future, but rather to be open, in an attitude of spiritual childhood, to accepting it as a gift.
~ Gustavo Gutiérrez
Our way is to practice one step at a time, one breath at a time, with no gaining idea.
~ Shunryu Suzuki
Stay in the spiritual fire. Let it cook you.
~ Rumi