Quotes About Patience

Then, for an instant, he was engulfed in the vivid patience, the impersonal benevolence, and the personal affection of his Father. He was reminded: 'You followed Lucifer in order to follow his thinking.

Festina Lente (Hurry in slowly)

The secret in life is enjoying the passage of time. —RICHIE HAVENS

Rumi tells us that moment we accept what troubles we've been given, the door will open.

But often the storm raged, sleet or wind or heavy snow, and Jonas did not come for several weeks at a time. The coldest winter in years, men said, the coldest in the time of man.

It is hard to be warmed by starlight, when you want the sun.

said. "I'm just not ready yet." It would take something other than my daily nagging. So one night, a night I knew would be

You see, the work of maintaining your life with your own skills was never counted in hours. The days were long and arduous, but there was no wishing them to go by.

See? You're using the stoic glacier method." "Remind me, what's the stoic glacier method?" "It's the slow process of shaping someone's behavior by force of one's own personal stoicism.

I lifted my head, my gaze meeting his. "Wanting something doesn't guarantee you will get it." "A man can still hope." "I've never had much room for hope.

It is vital that you do not change the path before you. I have told you, many times, that certain events must happen in a person's life for a reason, always for a reason. The events that will unfold before you...they must happen, Heather. They have to.

He forced his mind clear of other thoughts and waited. Stillness, he had learned, did not come naturally. He practiced it. Sometimes, as he waited, he heard the Lord's voice coursing through his spirit almost audibly. Other times he heard nothing, but he felt filled up and satisfied and understood.

Honey, I've learned to ask not why but what? 'Now that I'm in this impossible place, Lord, what do I do next?

Our part is to get to know God, as a Father and a friend. But to understand Him? His ways are far past our understanding. Infinitely far.

God doesn't want us to rescue our children. He's the Rescuer.

God does not waste our suffering. It always serves a purpose.

When you use thoughtful, gentle methods and are patient about the switch, this can be a peaceful time of transition for all of you.

Still, Mrs Potts wasn't going to let the girl just leave - not if she could help it. And having lived with a stubborn individual for quite some time, she knew that sometimes the best way to make people do what they didn't want to do was to give them the chance to do it on their own terms.

The sun will rise tomorrow. It always does, and all the wishing in the world for the way things were, or for what they could have been, won't change that. It won't change how things are.

I think... I think sometimes that's how it is. Sometimes people have to go before you get stuff. Before you can really get it.

The sun will rise tommorrow. It always does, and all the wishing in the world for the way things were, or for what they could have been, won't change that. It won't change how things are.

It will be over soon, finally, but the thing about hearts is that they want to keep beating. They want to keep beating.

You can plan all you want, but you will never know what will be. Life just is, and I am here in it. I am waiting for what comes next.

The long days seduce all thought away, and we lie like the lizards in the sun, postponing our lives indefinitely.