Quotes About Patience

We grow in time to trust the future for our answers.

British rain was rarely that simple. For days on end, instead of falling, it simply hung around in the air like a wife waiting for you to notice she was sulking.

Getting angry with her cousin, she reminded herself, was like getting angry with a sheep for being stupid. It ruined your day and the sheep was too dim to care.

waiting on God to move or to shift something inside me while at the same time still needing to lead in the public arena.

While you won't be given 'more than you can bear,' you will be led by 'a way you do not know

Dios sabe cuánto necesitamos nosotros estar juntos «más allá de las palabras». Por eso es que espera con paciencia que dejemos de movernos agitadamente y nos relajemos para poder recibir la nutrición de su presencia.

Con el tiempo notamos que de la quietud y la confianza nace nuestra fortaleza, porque vez tras vez encontramos allí todo lo que necesitamos para sustentarnos.

Practicing rhythms of silence and words, stillness and action, helps us learn to wait on God--which doesn't come easily for those of us accustomed to busily trying to make things happen.

It is a sobering thing to ask ourselves this question: Have I learned enough about how to wait on God in my own life to be able to call others to wait when that is what's truly needed? Have I done enough spiritual journeying to lead people on this part of their journey?

It's the degree of success and the length of time that is amazing.

the more we have to put up with, the less tolerant we get

I'll follow, if you give the sign.

I never knew anyone actually buy cakes when they were hot ...

All night you waited for morning, all morning for afternoon, all afternoon for night; and still the longing sings. Oh, paper bird with folded wings.

How long can you wait, alone in the dark? How long can you put off living until all your unfinished business is resolved?

The slowness of time will either benefit you or harm you.

I'm going to buy some green bananas because by the time I get home they'll be ripe.

We had great faith that with patience, understanding, and education, that my family and I could be helpful in changing their minds and attitudes around.

Take small steps with a long-term perspective.

Find patience in the breath of life.

I'll keep waiting, for as long as it takes, for this war to be seen in everyone's eyes for what it always was, the most filthy, savage, useless obsenity that ever there was.

Tomorrow always comes, and today is never yesterday.

We are living in the "not-yet" interval between the crowning and the actual reigning. We are living on the "not-yet" possessed part of His domain.

Nothing blooms at the hands of the impatient.