Quotes about Patience

Run the race not only with endurance and diligence, but also with careful, watchful submission to His Word.

Some fathers exasperate their children by being overly strict and controlling. They need to remember that rearing children is like holding a wet bar of soap — too firm a grasp and it shoots from your hand, too loose a grip and it slides away. A gentle but firm hold keeps you in control.

John Bunyan once said: "You can do more than pray after you have prayed, but you cannot do more than pray until you have prayed.

The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready. —D. MARTYN LLOYD-JONES

Sometimes--well, maybe always--we just have to take it on faith that God knows what He's doing.

The only way to get what you ultimately want is to deny yourself short-term pleasures that interfere with your goal.

But answering requests is not the primary role of God, and many people who believe it is will become disappointed and perhaps even alienated from God.

Everything that leads to happiness involves pain.

One way not to receive an answer to a petition is to go on praying for it. Some people pray themselves into faith and then pray themselves out of faith.

The Lord gave, and the Lord has taken away." If we can trust God to give, then we must also trust Him when He takes away".

If you have a bitter pool, bear in mind that out of the bitter pool God is going to reveal Himself to you if you will let Him speak to your heart.

So, when you come to your Marah, your bitter waters, and you begin to grumble, realise that there is something in you that must be dealt with and that God brought you to that place so He might deal with that thing, but He can only deal with it if you co-operate.