Quotes about Patience

have a tendency to do this with parenting: If I can just get through the diaper phase. . . . Once my children were out of diapers, it became: If I can just get through these early years of elementary school, then I can minister to others.

Be humble, gentle, patient, and forbearing in love

Do you need encouragement, comfort, hope, direction, wisdom, courage, rebuke, warning, forgiveness, patience, teaching, correction, thanks, insight, a job description, or something else? My words must be shaped by your need. An ambassador's words always address the person's true need of the moment.

And we urge you, brothers, warn those who are idle, encourage the timid, help the weak, be patient with everyone.

The health and maturity of a relationship are not measured by an absence of problems, but by the way the inevitable problems are handled.

Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.

I really believe that if you deserve something then one day you will get it.

A couple of my friends started having babies, and I thought, 'Maybe one day, with the right guy.' I have to find the guy first.

One can live for years sometimes without living at all, and then all life comes crowding into one single hour.

Thou knowest all; I seek in vain What lands to till or sow with seed - The land is black with briar and weed, Nor cares for falling tears or rain. Thou knowest all; I sit and wait With blinded eyes and hands that fail, Till the last lifting of the veil And the first opening of the gate. Thou knowest all; I cannot see. I trust I shall not live in vain, I know that we shall meet again In some divine eternity.

The Chinese have a proverb pregnant with the age-old wisdom of the Orient: 'He who treads softly goes far.

As Dr Johnson said, "God himself, sir, does not propose to judge a man until the end of his days." Why should you and I?