Quotes about Patience

Happiness can be defined, in part at least, as the fruit of the desire and ability to sacrifice what we want now for what we want eventually.

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

I no longer believe love works like a fairy tale but like farming. Most of it is just getting up early and tilling the soil and then praying for rain. But if we do the work, we just might wake up one day to find an endless field of crops rolling into the horizon. In my opinion, that's even better than a miracle. I'd rather earn the money than win the lottery because there's no joy in a reward unless it comes at the end of a story.

Here are two things I found taking the long road, though: Applause is a quick fix. And love is an acquired taste.

The real voice is stiller and smaller and seems to know, without confusion, the difference between right and wrong and the subtle delineation between the beautiful and profane. It's not an agitated voice, but ever patient as though it approves a million false starts. The voice I am talking about is a deep water of calming wisdom.

I kept asking Him to say it again, but He wouldn't. I guess it's because I heard Him the first time, you know.

The same is true in social relationships. Commitment in a relationship takes time.

Rushed relationships are not healthy.

God allows us to face the tension whether we like it or not.

A Sales Funnel Controls the Pace of the Relationship In a relationship, you talk about things on a fourth or fifth date you might never talk about on a first date.

God had never withheld love to teach me a lesson.

God has never withheld love to teach me a lesson.