Quotes about Patience

Was she like the prairie, only slowly yielding to God's plow in her life? She needed busting, then backsetting, and finally after snow and sun and rain, the seeds could be planted that would sprout into living wheat.

We never argue anymore. And when we do, it never lasts more than a week or two.

What if you find your soul mate... at the wrong time?

I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.

Now there is nothing in this world I abominate worse, than to be interrupted in a story...

Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.

Scattered wits take a long time in picking up.

Be guided, only by the healer of the sick, the raiser of the dead, the friend of all who were afflicted and forlorn, the patient Master who shed tears of compassion for our infirmities. We cannot but be right if we put all the rest away, and do everything in remembrance of Him. There is no vengeance and no infliction of suffering in His life, I am sure. There can be no confusion in following Him, and seeking for no other footsteps, I am certain!

Make them laugh, make them cry, make them wait.

If she wounds you, love her. If she tears your heart to pieces-- love her, love her, love her!

Judiciously show a cat, milk, if you wish her to thirst for it. Judiciously show a dog his natural prey, if you wish him to bring it down one day.

What is the secret, my darling, of your being everything to all of us, as if there werre only one of us, yet never seeming to be hurried, or to have too much to do? -Darney to Lucie