Quotes about Patience

Well, we must wait for the future to show.

Still, one got over things. Still, life had a way of adding day to day.

A good day—a bad day—so it goes on. Few people can be so tortured by writing as I am. Only Flaubert I think. Yet I see it now, as a whole. I think I can bring it off, if I only have courage and patience: take each scene quietly: compose: I think it may be a good book. And then—oh when it's finished!

I've seen more trouble come from long engagements than from any other forms of human folly.

Knitting is the saving of life.

For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.

Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Evangelicals sometimes expect too much or, to put it more precisely, we look for a kind of change God hasn't promised. It's possible to expect too little, but under-expectation is usually a cynical reaction to dashed hopes for too much. We manage to interpret biblical teaching to support our longing for perfection. As a result, we measure our progress by standards we will never meet until heaven.

Heavenly Father, you must think us such silly creatures, always worrying about tomorrow and letting today slip by.

God had not turned a deaf ear. He had been waiting for her to listen, as He always did.