Quotes About Patience

Fino a quel giorno che Dio si degnerà di svelare all'uomo il futuro, tutta la saggezza umana sarà in queste due parole: aspettare e sperare!

A tutti i mali vi sono due rimedi: il tempo e il silenzio

Oui, et je comprends ; pour retrouver une femme, vous faites la cour à une autre : c'est le chemin le plus long, mais le plus amusant.

Evils which are patiently endured when they seem inevitable become intolerable once the idea of escape from them is suggested.

Nations as well as men require time to learn, whatever may be their intelligence or zeal.

He who has set his heart exclusively upon the pursuit of worldly welfare is always in a hurry, for he has but a limited time at his disposal to reach, to grasp, and to enjoy it.

The acid of fury ran through him, eating away the brute patience and sluggishness that had made a cipher of Gully Foyle, precipitating a chain of reactions that would make an infernal machine of Gully Foyle. He was dedicated.

Don't ask the world to stop moving because you have doubts.

Christ is never in haste: least of all, on His errands of love. And He is never in haste, because He is always sure.

There is ever the prior question of plain duty, with which nothing else, however tempting or promising of success, can come into conflict; and such seasons may be only those when our faith and patience are put on trial, so as to bring it clearly before us, whether or not, quite irrespective of all else, we are content to leave everything in the hands of God.

The lifelong friends, he said. We sometimes wait a lifetime for them.

That's what winter is: an exercise in remembering how to still yourself then how to come pliantly back to life again.

the midst of apparent chaos and destruction. There is always another story going on behind the story that we see. God is at work in every situation, no matter how grim.

Time dribbles through our fingers while we wait.

I could not comprehend God's plan but my understanding was not essential. My obedience was.

For what you can fix, there are a hundred remedies. For what cannot be cured, not even words will do.

If we had paid attention, we would have understood there are some things in this world you cannot outrun.

We never know the end of the story until we get there.

Good fortune can take forever to get to you, but as it turns out, sorrow is as quick as a shot.

That's why there are ten gates to pass through before you reach the garden. If life were easy there would be one gate. There would be no gates at all.

If there be a cure, seek till you find it. If there be none, never mind it.

But when it comes to most skills, failure is the only way to become better at something. Knitting teaches you that. You may have to unwind all of your stitches and start anew. That doesn't mean you've wasted your time. You learn from every stitch, even those that don't amount to anything. All writers should be made to knit a hat before they start writing a novel. It would help with understanding the importance of revision, and that the process is what can bring you the most

You feel your heart and bones and blood. You wait for him like a bird in a cage.

Everything seemed slow, molasses slow, lovesick slow.