Quotes About Patience

Patience is not the ability to wait but how you act while you're waiting.

muchas personas son bendecidas con familias grandiosas, pero no pueden disfrutarlas porque continuamente tratan de cambiarlos, en vez de confiar en que Dios es poderoso para hacer cualquier cambio que sea necesario.

Too often, we Christians expect life to be perfect and for everything to go smoothly for us. We expect success, happiness, joy, peace, and everything else. When we're thwarted, we pout or complain. Although God does want us to have a good life, there will be times when we must be patient and endure not getting our way. These disappointments test our character and level of spiritual maturity. They actually show whether or not we truly are ready for promotion.

I am a new creation in Christ (see 2 Corinthians 5:17). I can live in perfect peace (see Isaiah 26:3). I am slow to speak, quick to hear, and slow to anger (see James 1:19). I can do all things through Christ, Who strengthens me (see Philippians 4:13). I am more than a conqueror in Christ (see Romans 8:37). I can have the mind of Christ (see 1 Corinthians 2:16). I am dead to sin and alive to righteousness (see Romans 6:11).

A humble mind enables us to take a back seat and wait for God to move us to the front.

Eso duró toda la vida. No fue un año ni dos. Fue toda la vida.

I waited thirty years for you to return, Susana. I wanted to have it all. Not just part of it, but everything there was to have, to the point that there would be nothing left for us to want, no desire but your wishes.

La??m çukurunun ba??na oturmuÅŸ, kurbaÄŸalar?n ç?kmas?n? bekliyorum.

Tendré que oírlo, hasta que se le muera su voz.

Judd: I like to be here until people really want to leave. But that's kind of how I am as a person. That's why my movies are too long. That's why I eat too much.

I have always been here," Qui-Gon said. "Being ready is your choice, my Padawan.

How satisfying it must feel to simply wait for events to unfold as you have foreseen them, Anakin thought. How powerful to know the outcome before it happened. This was what he could learn—and not from his Master. From Palpatine.

Love can't be forced into existence,(...)It won't come simply because you will it to happen

I'd like to shower and change clothes, she said. Would you mind waiting for me a half hour? The question seemed to amuse him. Not at all, he said with exaggerated formality. Please take all the time you need. Michael watched her walk away. Did he mind waiting a half hour for her? Not at all. He'd been waiting years for her.

I was chaos on the first day, waiting for the Word.

Do you think you can wait - because I don't want you to stop loving me. I keep remembering us and how it was. I don't want to hurt you...not ever...

You better get used to it. You're going to be on the ground a lot today, but cheer up... tomorrow you'll be an expert.

It's not God's job to decide what happens," she'd said. "It's his job to help you get

Well then, I'll just have to suffer

Feeding Tootsie can be an all-day project.

Margo would never voluntarily live with such an angry, critical person. Never. But when it was your own child you had no choice. So she kept on trying, kept hoping for the best, kept waiting for the sweetness to come back.

Wherever you are is always the right place. There is never a need to fix anything, to hitch up the bootstraps of the soul and start at some higher place. Start right where you are.

Making art has taught me that the tiniest smidgen of progress is something to be cherished.

When we seek daily spiritual guidance, we are guided toward the next step forward for our art. Sometimes the step is very small. Sometimes the step is, Wait. Not now. Sometimes the step is, Work on something else for a while. When we are open to Divine Guidance, we will receive it. It will come to us as the hunch, the inkling, the itch. It will come to us as timely conversations with others. It will come to us in many ways--but it will come.