Quotes About Patience

Racial tensions are rife with pride—the pride of white supremacy, the pride of black power, the pride of intellectual analysis, the pride of anti-intellectual scorn, the pride of loud verbal attack, and the pride of despising silence, the pride that feels secure, and the pride that masks fear. Where pride holds sway, there is no hope for the kind of listening and patience and understanding and openness to correction that relationships require.

So waiting is a holy work Of faith in God. Nor does there lurk Beneath the timing of his ways Some secret malice that displays Itself in holding back the flow Of future grace. God does not go From here to there by shortest routes; He makes a place for faith and doubts. Nor does he hasten on his way, But comes when it is best, today, Or maybe twenty years from now, Or more.

God aims to exalt himself by working for those who wait for him. Prayer is the essential activity of waiting for God: acknowledging our helplessness and his power, calling upon him for help, seeking his counsel.

If you cannot embrace the pain of learning but must have instant gratification, you forfeit the greatest rewards of life.

There would be no obstacles to overcome. We won't fight for joy in heaven. But we are not there yet.

God has his ways to loosen your roots.

Let all your frustrations with this world throw you onto the Word of God.

God knows the time for joy and truly Will send it when he sees it meet When He has tried and purged thee duly And found thee free from all deceit. He comes to thee all unaware And makes thee own His loving care.3

In all this Job did not sin or charge God with wrong" (Job 1:22, RSV).

Cuando se rinde al tratar de entender completamente por qué Dios hace lo que hace y simplemente confía en Él; entonces esta paz "guardará su corazón y su mente".

Cuando creemos que el Señor está más lejos de nosotros o nos ha vuelto la espalda, la verdad es que, mientras nos aferramos a Él, el Señor pone el fundamento para mayor felicidad en nuestra vida. No juzgues con débil sentido al Señor, Más bien confía en Él por su gracia; Detrás de una providencia agobiante Él esconde su rostro sonriente.

The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.

The al Qaeda War Manual, discovered by British police in a raid on an al Qaeda safe house, and translated from Arabic, lists "Patience" as one of the 14 qualifications for membership in the Jihadist organization. "He should be patient in performing the work, even if it lasts a long time.

Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.

Who depends on another man's table often dines late.

But in More Stock Investing For Beginners we get into what I call the Warren Buffett mindset. It goes something like this. Just because the stock is selling for $ 5.17 right now doesn't mean you can't put an order in for $ 5.00.

Never try to teach a pig to sing; it wastes your time and it annoys the pig.

Endurance is nobler than strength, and patience than beauty.

He that would be angry and sin not, must not be angry with anything but sin.

No changing of place at a hundred miles an hour will make us one whit stronger, or happier, or wiser. There was always more in the world than man could see, walked they ever so slowly; they will see it no better for going fast. The really precious things are thought and sight, not pace. It does a bullet no good to go fast; and a man, if he be truly a man, no harm to go slow; for his glory is not at all in going, but in being.

Time passes, but sometimes it beats the shit out of you as it goes.

Patience is the chiefest fruit of study; a man that strives to make himself different from other men by much reading gains this chiefest good, that in all fortunes he hath something to entertain and comfort himself withal.

The gods cannot place their gifts into a closed fist. First your hand must be emptied, then the gifts may be received. We poor fools call this loss, and we suffer, but it is the blessing of the gods.

Don't worry about losing. If it is right, it happens - The Main thing is not to hurry. Nothing good gets away.