Quotes about Patience

We run at a breakneck pace to try and achieve what God simply wants us to slow down enough to receive.

Lord God, I know You often work in ways I don't understand. There are parts of my story that feel incredibly hard to live in, but I trust You are making something beautiful even out of those parts of my life. In Jesus' name, amen.

With that said, maybe it's time to release back to God what we can't change so we can discover what He has for us now.

God has the most amazing way to work in the unseen details of life and work out His plan despite our stubbornness.

I'm always asking God for direction, but I'll miss it if I constantly ignore His instruction. (11)

Still, even when it seems otherwise, we must remember that sometimes when we feel rejected and passed over for someone else, when God seems busy elsewhere or even purposefully unmoving, the truth is He is at work, maybe doing something entirely beyond what we were thinking.

Imagine the difference this could make with not setting into motion what needs to remain still.

Choose to live loved while you're in the middle of the journey, and know that what He has in mind for you is so much more than you imagine.

We cannot control our outcomes. We cannot formulate how the promises of God will actually take shape. And we will never be able to demand any of the healing from all the hurt to hurry up.

And that's when it occurred to me that if you get desperate enough you'll go all in with living slow for a while. You'll quiet down all the outside noise so God's voice can become the loudest voice in your life. Now, I realize, none of us can just quit life when life falls apart. But we can quit some things.

remember not every face-to-face confrontation needs a verbal response

God loves us too much to answer our prayers in any other way than the right way. And He loves us too much to answer our prayers at any other time than the right time.