Quotes About Patience

He also serves who only stands and waits.

I will not deny but that the best apology against false accusers is silence and sufferance, and honest deeds set against dishonest words.

If you give me enough years and a wise wife, I can eventually start piecing things together. And it helps if that wife pieces them together for me and simply tells me.

There is always time for failure.

True trust always involves an element of waiting. It means believing in results that we cannot see. A determination to have the results I want now is a major sign of an inability to trust.

Shortcuts usually grease the rails to disappointing outcomes.

everything is needful that he sends. nothing can be needful that he withholds

They had experienced a variety of God's providential actions, but they did not yet understand God's ultimate goals.

Because of our own ignorance and unbelief, we often fail to understand the Lord's dealings with us, and we are all too ready to complain. If we knew everything from God's perspective, we would rejoice.

You have traveled too fast over false ground; Now your soul has come to take you back. Take refuge in your senses, open up To all the small miracles you rushed through. Become inclined to watch the way of rain When it falls slow and free. Imitate the habit of twilight, Taking time to open the well of color That fostered the brightness of day. Draw alongside the silence of stone Until its calmness can claim you.

This is the time to be slow, Lie low to the wall Until the bitter weather passes. Try, as best you can, not to let The wire brush of doubt Scrape from your heart All sense of yourself And your hesitant light. If you remain generous, Time will come good; And you will find your feet Again on fresh pastures of promise, Where the air will be kind And blushed with beginning.

When you chase success, your spark burns out quickly. When

As frustrating as people can be, it's hard to find a good substitute.

One of the great illusions of our day is that hurrying will buy us more time.

There's no such thing as failure - just waiting for success.

John P. Forsyth

It seems like it has been forever. But i getbthe feeling that forever hasn't even started yet.

When you decide that you are going to do whatever it takes for as long as it takes, sometime during your seemingly infinite journey the weathervane will just change direction and the new winds of positive change will blow at your back instead of into your face and things will just get easier and you will start to see progress right out of the blue. When that day happens you will know that it is just a matter of time. And time is what I have.

Love suffers long and is kind; love does not envy; love does not parade itself, is not puffed up; does not behave rudely, does not seek its own, is not provoked, thinks no evil; does not rejoice in iniquity, but rejoices in the truth; bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things—1 CORINTHIANS 13:4-7.

Knowledge and strategies can be helpful. But knowledge can become an "Ishmael" if you don't put it on the altar.

Never stand between a dog and the hydrant.

We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.

DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

We can draw no deadlines for God. He hastens or He delays as he sees fit. And his timing is all-loving toward his children. On, that we might learn to be patient in the hour of darkness. I don't mean that we make peace with darkness. We fight for joy. But we fight as those who are saved by grace and held by Christ. We say...that our night will soon- in God's good timing- turn to day.