Quotes about Patience

We must invite God into our pain to help us survive the desperate in-between.

C. S. Lewis said it best: "We are not necessarily doubting that God will do the best for us; we are wondering how painful the best will turn out to be.

Time grows the seeds that are planted, watered, and fertilized. Plant beauty, grow beauty. Plant thorns, grow thorns. Time will allow for either.

If I want His promises, I have to trust His process. I have to trust that first comes the dust, and then comes the making of something even better with us. God isn't ever going to forsake you, but He will go to great lengths to remake you. What if disappointment is really the exact appointment your soul needs to radically encounter God?

I can face things out of my control without acting out of control.

We see that all those harsh realities aren't the end, but rather a temporary middle space. Not the place where we are meant to wallow and dwell. Rather the place through which we will have to learn to wrestle well.

Dear Lord, please help me pause and allow the Holy Spirit to intervene when I want to react in ways that don't glorify You. Even when I'm caught off guard, may Your love and patience be the spillover from my heart. In Jesus' name, amen.

The children of Israel were led by God, not on the shortest route but rather the ordained route.

Too much revelation and I'd pridefully run ahead of You. Too little and I'd be paralyzed with fear.

Psalm 103:8 The LORD is compassionate and gracious, slow to anger, abounding in love.

Though it felt so permanent at the time, in the scope of my life, I can now see it was truly just a short-term setback from which the Lord delivered me.

For the LORD is a God of justice. Blessed are all who wait for him! (30:15—18)