Quotes about Patience

After some minutes, I went back to the Bible. Again my eyes skimmed the pages. My spirit was calm now. My trembling had ceased. I read passage after passage until I came to Psalm 27:14. I stopped and read it through again. "Wait on the Lord: be of good courage, and he shall strengthen thine heart; wait, I say, on the Lord.

I tried to drink a cup of tea, but my hands shook when I lifted the cup to my mouth. I was on the verge of tears, but I knew that tears would do no good. I fed the fire, I prayed, I walked the floor, I prayed, I read my Bible, I prayed; and somehow this even longer second day of storm passed by, hour by hour.

She prayed. Not merely for wisdom, but for submission. Would she ever be ready—and willing—to let God work out the details of her future?

Sometimes the way God chooses to lead us is through our own disquieted Spirit. pg. 241

So that is what we pray for. That God will give you the wisdom and the faith to look beyond this moment. To know that whatever lies ahead, he has prepared the way. And he will have you ready for it as long as you are faithfully following him.

She had a hard time to keep from running.

God doesn't tell you to do hard things so He can stand back and laugh and watch you struggle. He tells you to do things the things that He knows are gonna work out to your good in the end.

On bravely through the sunshine and the showers! Time hath his work to do, and we have ours.

The idea that success can happen overnight is crippling the financial future of generations. You have to work for it.

Wait, wait, wait, wait. Don't try to write through it, to force it. Many do, but that won't work. Just wait, it will come.

Great buildings, like great mountains, are the work of centuries.

I'm not tired of the work... I'm tired in the work.