Quotes About Patience

He didn't know what to do with the immediate future or what to do with long-range future. These questions should be fairly easy to address. Follow God's direction, plain and simple.

Half the time your kids end up hating you for at least 5 of their teenage years[.] And don't ever expect anything so mundane as a thank you

you have to come of age when it's your time. If you try to rush it or put it off, it only gets you into trouble.

It's difficult to stop trying with the one you love. You always hope that this next time might work, might change everything for the better.

Secrets could never be rushed. They had to come of their own accord, on their own schedule. That way ,when they came , the offered themselves as a gift.

Are you a person who peels off a band-aid slowly or just rips it off all at once?" Casey contemplated Alexa's warning, recognizing it for what it was.

can laugh at the days to come, not because the days before were so easy, but because she knows her God.

Everything takes me longer than I expect. It's the sad truth about life.

It is predictable that God will take care of us. What's unpredictable is how he will do it.

Time passes way too slow when you're waiting for the unknown

Some things may never change but other things can be so completely different that they make the things that don't change bearable.

But you must give people time. The world can't be remade in a day." "The world won't ever be remade, if no one tries to remake it. Change must begin somewhere.

Saint Teresa of Ávila's Meditation "Christ has no body now, but yours. No hands, no feet on earth, but yours. Yours are the eyes through which Christ looks compassion into the world. Yours are the feet with which Christ walks to do good. Yours are the hands with which Christ blesses the world.… Let nothing trouble you, let nothing frighten you. All things are passing; God never changes. Patience obtains all things. He who possesses God lacks nothing: God alone suffices.

When your children are older, you will be able to make more opportunities happen for quiet prayer. While the children are small, be content with your busy life, raising your thoughts and heart to God often, thanking Him for His love in your family.

If you're climbing the ladder of life, you go rung by rung, one step at a time. Don't look too far up, set your goals high but take one step at a time. Sometimes you don't think you're progressing until you step back and see how high you've really gone.

If trees could speak they wouldn't

We do not have to become heroes overnight," Eleanor once wrote. "Just a step at a time, meeting each thing that comes up, seeing it is not as dreadful as it appears, discovering that we have the strength to stare it down.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

Better Counsel comes overnight.

In university they don't tell you that the greater part of the law is learning to tolerate fools.

Fortitude is a value missing in our society today. There is a reality about sticking things out for a better day to dawn that is not cliché, but honest-to-God good advice that we should all weigh and consider

Everything that comes to us is a blessing or a test. That's all you need to know in this life…just the certainty that God's got His eye on you, that He knows what you are made of, what you need to grow on. Why,questioning's a sin, it's pointless. He will show you your path in His own good time. And long as I remember that, I'm fine.

He waited for her to say more but only silence roiled about them.

He rang Laurel as soon as he reached the apartment. Before he fixed a drink, before even lighting a cigarette. There was no answer to the call. He rang her every fifteen minutes after that, and at six, when the dusk was moving across the open windows, and when there was still no answer to his call, he stepped out into the courtyard where he could look up at her apartment. But there were no lights in it.