Quotes about Patience

The saints, however, are in silence and patience and in hope (spes), not in physical activity (res), like those people, for they are saved by the name of the Lord. This does not come about except in hope and patience and silence, whereas the ungodly seek to be saved in bustle and physical activity (res), indeed by the vanity of physical activity.

for no man, without trials and temptations, can attain to the true understanding of the Holy Scriptures. 

If what we need isn't available to us, we have to rely on God's promises. If we don't rely on God, we are testing him.

Where are the unwise, who are not only impatient but plot revenge day and night? But why? Because they do not see how great is the damage of those who have not kept the law of the Lord, therefore they have no sympathy with them but also themselves depart from the law of God through anger and impatience.

When we try to dictate to God the time, place, and manner for him to act, we are testing him. At the same time, we're trying to see if he is really there. When we do this we are putting limits on God and trying to make him do what we want. It's nothing less than trying to deprive God of his divinity. But we must realize that God is free—not subject to any limitations. He must dictate to us the place, manner, and time that he will act.

One must be careful to hold fast to the fact that God makes promises and defers the things promised, and that He tries us with a scarcity of available things in order to instruct us in faith in the promise and in order that this faith may be strengthened and may learn to believe God not only in prosperous times, when things are available, but also in adversity, when things are lacking.

There are two days in my calendar: This day and that Day.

You don't have to see the whole staircase. Just take the first step.

For years now I have heard the word "Wait!" It rings in the ears of every Negro with a piercing familiarity. This "Wait" has almost always meant "Never."

Courage does not always roar. Sometimes, courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow".

Experience teaches us that we do not always receive the blessings we ask for in prayer.

Because of the lord's great love we are not consumed, for his compassions never fail.