Quotes About Patience

Halt regarded him. He loved Horace like a younger brother. Even like a second son, after Will. He admired his skill with a sword and his courage in battle. But sometimes, just sometimes, he felt an overwhelming desire to ram the young warrior's head against a convenient tree. "You have no sense of drama or symbolism, do you?" he asked. "Huh?" replied Horace, not quite understanding. Halt looked around for a convenient tree. Luckily for Horace, there were none in sight.

Wisdom sails with wind and time.

Patience is the best medicine.

Someday, you'll understand.

Sirs, up and be doing. Press toward the mark. Add to your faith, virtue; to virtue, knowledge; to knowledge, temperance; to temperance, patience; to patience, godliness, that you be neither barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. Be you therefore steadfast, unmovable, always abounding in the work of our Lord. And if you do these things, you will never fall (1 Cor. 15:58; 2 Peter 1:5-8, 10).

At the martyrdom of Faustines and Jovita, brothers and citizens of Brescia, their torments were so many, and their patience so great, that Calocerius, a pagan, beholding them, was struck with admiration, and exclaimed in a kind of ecstacy, "Great is the God of the christians!" for which he was apprehended, and suffered a similar fate.

The main thing experience has taught me is that one has to sort of hone their relationship to time, you know.

Beloved, it is not our long prayers but our believing God that gets the answer. However

I think Job and I understand each other better now. It was not the boils, but the free advice!

as I had only once to die, I was content to leave the time and place and means in the hand of God

Sometimes the best solution to a problem is active waiting. There is wisdom in allowing events to unfold in their own time.

if you've got writer's block, you aren't empty - maybe it's just like Twitter - overwhelmed, and loading seems to be taking a while...

surely by now you must know: It's love; it's love—but will there ever be good news?...

have you been waiting all this time, faithful as always, my Life?...

I've decided ... love is an eternity of slow motion replays ...

when people oppose your view, you can become a lightning rod, but if I were you, I'd let them stew...

I once tried to approach Akiro Kurosawa, but he never answered.

His dad had once told him that hope was the most valuable possession a man could own. When he'd first said it, Nathan hadn't known what he'd meant. Now it was clear. Hope was where tomorrow resided.

It was cool for a couple of weeks, but how much bad golf can you play?

Remember, if a man needs to pull away like a rubber band, when he returns he will be back with a lot more love. Then he can listen. This is the best time to initiate conversation.

Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they'll wait for you forever; pay attention to them and they always love you back.

What the hell is instant? Nothing is instant. Instant rice takes five minutes, instant pudding an hour. I doubt that an instant of blinding pain feels particularly instantaneous.

Before me, even as behind, God is, and all is well.

Behind the cloud the starlight lurks, Through showers the sunbeams fall; For God, who loveth all His works, Has left His hope with all!