Quotes About Patience

it's human nature to want to seize control when the people we love are suffering. But trying to impose our personal agenda on someone else's experience is the shadow side of love, while real love recognizes that life unfolds at its own pace.

When emotions are long held and extremely complex, it sometimes takes years for them to enter fully into awareness.

When we don't allow setbacks to defeat us, they become opportunities for learning, acceptance, flexibility, and patience.

Self-love is an unfolding process that gains strength over time, not a goal with a fixed end point.

The Indian vessels, a contemporary British observer wrote, 'united elegance and utility and are models of patience [sic] and fine workmanship.' Indian workers were considered expert in all shipbuilding materials—wood, iron and brass

if you waited twenty-six years to have sex, you're probably not going to copulate with a stranger.

But bears it out, even to the edge of doom...

though waiting for someone to make a move. "I

when you've come to the end of yourself and you don't get it, take a nap, have a good meal, and lean in for the gentle whisper of God.

I had His peace in the not knowing. Christ offers peace in the not-knowing seasons.

The horizon might be dim and overcast at the moment, but trust God. He is for you, and new things are on the way.

A bruised reed he will not break, and a smoldering wick he will not snuff out" (Isaiah 42:3).

of God's promise that disappointment will lead to hope.

If you think you are having a problem with God, just try to imagine the problem He/She is having with you! There is no way to know God's Will, unless I do it.

If you're serious about sanctification, you can expect to experience heart-wrenching moments that try your faith, your endurance, and your patience.

Life is a test. It is only a test--meaning that's all it is. Nothing more, but nothing less. It is a test of our convictions and priorities, our faith and faithfulness, our patience and resilience, and in the end, our ultimate desires. It is a test to determine if we want to be part of the kingdom of God more than we want anything else.

Read. Read 1000 pages for every 1 page that you write.

I stupidly hoped that time would stand still if I stayed still.

But whenever I started in on my crazy theories, Norma would put her finger to my lips really gently. Junior, she would say with gentleness and patience. Shut the fuck up. Norma always was a genius with words.

It is warm, soon to be cold, but that's in the future, maybe tomorrow, probably the next day and all the days after that. Today, now, I drink what I have, will eat what is left in the cupboard, while my mother finishes her quilt, piece by piece. Believe me, there is just barely enough goodness in all of this.

That which doesn't kill us just requires a few centuries of therapy. (Caleb) Yeah, and usually a lot of Tylenol. (Nick)

Not half as much as I'd miss me if you killed me. (He blinked like a girl and leaned against Ash's shoulder.) Please don't hurt me, Ash. Please. I don't want to die while I'm still a virgin. At least let me get laid before you kill me – which according to my mom I can't do until I'm married and I can't do that until I finish college. So you have to wait a good ten years before you snuff me. Deal? (Nick)

Take care of him, Soteria. And remember it takes great courage and heart for a man who knows no kindness to show it to another. Even the wildest of beasts can be tamed by a patient and gentle hand. (Takeshi)

Patience to the spider