Quotes About Patience

What experience has shown me is that it takes your life to become an artist.

For the first two years of a child's life, we spend every waking hour tryibg to get the child to communicate. Then we spend the rest of our lives trying to figure out how we can reverse the process.

If you stop complaining and asking for what you never will get, you will have a good life. A good life is not measured by any biblical span.

Recently, a six-year-old boy said to me, "I've been waiting to meet you for half my life."

God is patiently transfiguring all the notes of my life into the song of His Son.

Life is so urgent and necessitates living slow. It's only the amateurs-and that I've been, and it's been ugly-who thinks slow and urgent are contradictory.

God is not usually a burning bush in my life. He's usually a very quiet whisper. And he never shows up too early...but he's also never late, either.

Put it off for a bit. All life is putting off. Well, not entirely.

The truth can wait, for it lives a long life.

As long as I have you there is just one other thing I'll always need - tremendous self control.

I would rather be on a roller coaster life going through hell and back to appreciate the glory instead of having it all at once.

Life is a kind of Chess, with struggle, competition, good and ill events.

I mean, I feel like you get more bees with honey. But that doesn't mean I don't get frustrated in my life.

You will NOT make $60,000 a year right out of high school. You won't be a vice-president with a car phone until you earn both.

There's no such thing as trust unless you have unanswered questions in your life. If you know everything, theres nothing to trust God for.

Why should I ever resist any delay or disapointment, any affliction or oppression or humiliation - when I know God will use it in my life to make me like Jesus and to prepare me for heaven?

You go through things in life where you're not always going to get what you want, but if God feels it's supposed to happen, it's going to happen.

We're all worm bait waiting to happen. It's what you do while you wait that matters.

And I thought, there's a sloth near. There's a sloth here, it's close, it's gonna happen. And I didn't know how to process that, because my entire life had been waiting for this moment.

You build a successful life a day at a time.

I am angry nearly every day of my life, but I have learned not to show it; and I still try to hope not to feel it, though it may take me another forty years to do it.

I relax and enjoy life. I know that whatever I need to know is revealed to me in the perfect time and space sequence.

I can't go all my life waiting to catch you between husbands.

In everyday life there is always manana. There is no urgency