Quotes About Patience

Knowing God's own time is best, In patient hope I rest...

There's no such thing as a bad dog, just a bad owner.

Such short little lives our pets have to spend with us, and they spend most of it waiting for us to come home each day.

War is sometimes described as long periods of boredom punctuated by short moments of excitement. History is often similar, if rather safer.

In response, God appears to Job and compels him to live in mystery, not giving an answer to his suffering but asserting his own wisdom and power. Other

With God there are no dead ends, only training grounds.

There is a reason God has alerted us to "look up" for the coming of the Lord.

Knowing how polarities work, the wise leader does not push to make things happen, but allows process to unfold on its own. The leader teaches by example rather than by lecturing others on how they ought to be. The leader knows that constant interventions will block the group's process. The leader does not insist that things come out a certain way. The wise leader does not seek a lot of money or a lot of praise. Nevertheless, there is plenty of both.

I suppose that every time there is difficulty. I remember about Space Mountain: It took us ten years before we found the technology that would allow such a ride. And during these ten years, I had a model that I kept, waiting for the technology we needed.

Lead, kindly Light, amid the encircling gloom;Lead thou me on!The night is dark, and I am far from home;Lead thou me on!Keep thou my feet: I do not ask to seeThe distant scene; one step enough for me.

John Henry (Cardinal) Newman

Nothing would be done at all if one waited until one could do it so well that no one could find fault with it.

Let us put ourselves into His hands, and not be startled though He leads us by a strange way, a mirabilis via , as the Church speaks. Let us be sure He will lead us right, that He will bring us to that which is, not indeed what we think best, nor what is best for another, but what is best for us.

All morning they watched for the plane which they thought would be looking for them. They cursed war in general and PTs in particular. At about ten o'clock the hulk heaved a moist sigh and turned turtle.

Much water goeth by the millThat the miller knoweth not of.

Rome was not built in one day.

Haste maketh waste.

The tide tarrieth no man.

Better is to bow than break.

Be the day never so long,Evermore at last they ring to even-song.

Where once there seemed to be room to wonder, to speculate, to not know, there now seems to be increasing pressure for instant answers, immediate solutions, and narrowly defined results.

Time is the empty space that allows knowledge—let alone wisdom—to grow.

Sometimes confusion is a necessary way to slow things down until we have within us the strength and courage to find the best and truest answer instead of settling for an easier, quicker one along the way.

It´s natural to want someone you love to do what you want, or what you think would be good for them, but you have to let everything happen to them. You can't interfere with people you love any more than you're supposed to interfere with people you don't even know. And that's hard, ..., because you often feel like interfering -you want to be the one who makes the plans.