Quotes About Patience

How do you demonstrate a love for God and others in the heat of a contract negotiation in which you perceive the other party to be unreasonable? The Bible gives you no clear-cut answer. God designed the ambiguity in which you are forced to live in order to keep you trusting in Him.

If you've told a child a thousand times and he still doesn't understand, then it is not the child who is a slow learner.

An inability to stay quiet, an irritable desire to act directly, is one of the most conspicuous failings of mankind.

If you wait, you grow old, nothing more.

The more circumspectly you delay writing down an idea, the more maturely developed it will be on surrendering itself.

I came into the world under the sign of Saturn -- the star of the slowest revolution, the planet of detours and delays.

It is rather the conviction that God will not quit until God has arrived at God's good intention.

You're only here for a short visit. Don't hurry. Don't worry. And be sure to smell the flowers along the way.

"Tell them that I came, and no one answered,That I kept my word," he said.

God has mercifully ordered that the human brain works slowly; first the blow, hours afterwards the bruise.

That's what's wrong with women. They want you to wait for them until they get ready and then they don't even tell you how they feel.

Perserverance is not a long race; it is many short races one after another.

Perseverance is not a long race it is many short races one after another.

Don't hurry, don't worry. You're here for a short visit. So be sure to stop and smell the flowers.

There is no tragedy in missing a putt, no matter how short. All have erred in this respect.

If God had preserved him this far, a prisoner would tell you, if he had not rejected him with all his transgressions but had kept him alive until now, then surely he would not abandon him. That was the source of their confidence and trust in him.

I had continuously to learn to accept God's will—not as I wished it to be, not as it might have been, but as it actually was at the moment.

it was easy to float freely and euphorically into the future, ready to accept whatever God might have prepared for me there. But the future was now the present, and as is always the case, it was a lot more unmanageable and full of bustle than it had seemed in the abstract. Accordingly, my new spirit of interior resolve to search out and understand and accept God's will in every detail of every situation was quickly put to a rude test by the rough and ready realities of life.

That's what humility means—learning to accept disappointments and even defeat as God-sent, learning to persevere and carry on with peace of heart and confidence in God, secure in the knowledge that something worthwhile is being accomplished precisely because God's will is at work in our life and we are doing our best to accept and follow it.

Striving instead to eliminate all self-will, to accept God's will revealed in the circumstances of daily life, is the surest way to achieve growth in conformity to the will of God.

La humildad significa eso: aprender a aceptar el desánimo e incluso la derrota como enviados por Dios; aprender a perseverar y seguir adelante con el corazón en paz y confiando en Dios, seguros de que lo que suceda merece la pena, por el mero hecho de que en nuestra vida está actuando la voluntad de Dios y nosotros procuramos aceptarla y seguirla.

There would be a tomorrow, and we would have to live in it—and God would be there as well.

And I learned soon enough that prayer does not take away bodily pain or mental anguish. Nevertheless, it does provide a certain moral strength to bear the burden patiently. Certainly, it was prayer that helped me through every crisis.

Ultimately, we come to expect God to accept our understanding of what his will ought to be and to help us fulfill that, instead of learning to see and accept his will in the real situations in which he places us daily.