Quotes About Patience

if the train doesn't stop at your station, it's not your train.

Where there is lack, God's abundance is on the way. Hold on. Have faith. It's coming.

Only infinite patience produces immediate results.

It has been said that love brings up everything unlike itself, and sometimes just when we feel we are moving towards a solution, the problem comes up again and grabs us by the throat. That is natural. It is part of the process. Do not despair.

La única forma de alcanzar el poder en un mundo que avanza demasiado rápido es aprender a tener calma.

It isn't easy, giving birth to our spiritual potential. Spiritual labor can be very arduous—one holy instant at a time, when we give up, surrender, soften, don't care if we're right, forgo our impatience, detach from the opinions and prizes of the world, and rest in the arms of God. But the end result is the love of our lives. We begin

It's like the dirty water that spurts out of a bathtub that hasn't been used for a while; you just have to let it do its thing for a bit, and then clear water will begin to flow.

Durante todo este tiempo creíamos que Lo estábamos esperando. Poca idea teníamos de que era Él quien nos estaba esperando a nosotros.

He [Colonel George Scrutton] always, like the wise man a hard life had made him, allowed trouble to come to him, instead of hastening to meet it, as is a woman's way.

It is useless for you to consider the reason of this, or the meaning of that. Take things as they come in due order: one circumstance explains the other, and everything is always for the best.

She closed one eye and looked at me and said, I know there is a blessing in this somewhere. It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. Another reason why you must be careful of your health.

When my mother left me waiting for her, [she] established in me the habit of waiting and expectation which makes any present moment most significant for what it does not contain.

The best things that happen I'd never have thought to pray for. In a million years. The worst things just come like the weather.

It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire.

It is worth living long enough to outlast whatever sense of grievance you may acquire. Another reason why you must be careful of your health.

Doll always said, Just be quiet. Whatever it is, just wait for it to be over. Everything ends sometime.

She closed one eye and looked at me and said, I know there is a blessing in this somewhere.

Her father told his children to pray for patience, for courage, for kindness, for clarity, for trust, for gratitude. Those prayers will be answered

Grant me on earth what seems Thee best, Till death and Heav'n reveal the rest.   —Isaac Watts

You can say to yourself, I'm just a body that thinks and talks and seems to want its life, one more day of it. You don't have to know why. Well, nothing could ever change if your body didn't just keep you there not even knowing what it is you're waiting for. Not even knowing that you're waiting at all. Just there on the stoop in the moonlight licking up tears.

So she prayed, Lord, give me patience. She knew that was not an honest prayer, and she did not linger over it....it cost her tears to think that her situation might actually be that desolate, so she prayed again for patience, for tact, for understanding--for every virtue that might keep her safe from conflicts that would be sure to leave her wounded, every virtue that might at least help her to preserve an appearance of dignity, for heaven's sake.

I've probably been boring a lot of people for a long time. Strange to find comfort in the idea. There have always been things I felt I must tell them, even if no one listened or understood.

I remember once my father and my grandfather were sitting on the porch together, crackling and shelling black walnuts. They loved each other's company, when they weren't at each other's throats, which meant when they were silent, as they were that day.

I know it'll be all right, but it makes me mad.