Quotes about Patience
Anyway, the sort of love that will not wait is probably best to pass by
- Alice Hoffman
For God's sake hold your tongue, and let me love.
- John Donne
Love accepts the trying things of life without asking for explanations. It trusts and is at rest.
- Amy Carmichael
The way we treat people we disagree with most is a report card on what we've learned about love.
- Bob Goff
We're all amateurs when it comes to love. Don't be too hard on each other.
- Bob Goff
The sufferings endured for God are the greatest proof of our love for Him.
- Alphonsus Liguori
True wisdom is found in trusting God when you can't figure things out.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
Joni discovered the best way to put the halter on her horse without being animal resisting and fleeing was to turn her back until he nuzzled up to her. At that point, she could slip the halter on. Just so, she surmises, sometimes God waits for us to turn our backs on what we desire most and to trust Him.
- Joni Eareckson Tada
Authors have established it as a kind of rule, that a man ought to be dull sometimes; as the most severe reader makes allowances for many rests and nodding places in a voluminous writer.
- Joseph Addison
Our real blessings often appear to us in the shape of pains, losses and disappointments; but let us have patience and we soon shall see them in their proper figures.
- Joseph Addison
While there is hope, do not distrust the gods;
- Joseph Addison
The success and the failure are not my concern, but His.
- Joseph Barber Lightfoot