Quotes About Patience

Then just get out the way and let God do His thing!

Joe Miller : Now, explain it to me like I'm a four-year-old.

The substance of faith is a hope in the unseen.

Push the needle into some middle range of guarded optimism.

No is never "no," it's just "no" for now.

Promise from God | GALATIANS 5:22-23 | The Holy Spirit produces this kind of fruit in our lives: love, joy, peace, patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control.

When you're trying to make things happen in your own time . . . We can make our plans, but the LORD determines our steps. Proverbs 16:9

Where in this wide world can a person find nobility without pride, friendship without envy or beauty without vanity? Here, where grace is laced with muscle and strength by gentleness confined. He serves without servility, he has fought without enmity. There is nothing so powerful, nothing less violent; there is nothing so quick, nothing more patient.

Those who had spent a whole night, or sometimes three whole nights, cramped and cold, with a bursting bladder, while they guided a telescope to keep the pinpoint of a faint star in the cross-hair of an eyepiece, knew the advantages of a fast telescope.

THIS BOOK HAS been over a quarter of a century in the making,

Anyone that's ever had their kitchen done over knows that it never gets done as soon as you wish it would.

The problem with chasing young women is that they refuse to run.

Expect a miracle. Have faith and hope. Because night is darkest just before dawn..and you or I do not hold the brush that colors the night and the day.

Don't be deceived into thinking that a girl is special or good just because she's playing hard to get

What time is the funeral" " Two pm." "Are you going, Sergeant?" "Yes." "Can anyone go?" "Anyone can go Beula, but only good people with respectful intentions should attend don't you think? Without Tilly's tolerance and generosity, her patience and skills, our lives - mine especially - would not have been enriched. Since you are not sincere about her feelings or about her dear mother and only want to go to stickybeak - well it's just plain ghoulish isn't it?

Oh, there would always be more storms to weather, but holding on to each other, they could wait for the break in the clouds. The bright patch of blue. As long as they kept holding on.

I want to do something absolutely different, or perhaps nothing at all: just stay where I am, in my home, and absorb each hour, each day, and be alone; and read and think; and walk about the garden in the night; and wait, wait...

Both parents turned toward their son and waited. The boy said nothing. "You see?" said his father, and went on to elaborate the image; the boy had closeted himself, and the father wanted more of something—more information, more contact.

It is better to travel hopefully than to arrive. Arrival often brings nothing but a sense of desolation and disappointment.

Time had lost its importance. That was one of the good things about getting old: you weren't perpetually in a hurry. All her life, Penelope had looked after other people, but now she had no one to think about but herself. There was time to stop and look, and, looking, to remember. Visions widened, like views seen from the slopes of a painfully climbed mountain, and having come so far, it seemed ridiculous not to pause and enjoy them.

My father had bought an ugly new clock, and it was ticking again in the quiet kitchen.

Father Damien maintained a neutral, kind, meditative watchfulness that had in it no hint of impatience.

yes. But within a month of enduring this great thirst

And although the mourners well hid their irritation, it was inevitable that there were some who were impatient. If you are dead, stay dead, someone muttered.