Quotes about Patience
The tree on the mountain takes whatever the weather brings. If it has any choice at all, it is in putting down roots as deeply as possible."---Each New Day
- Corrie Ten Boom
Train up a fig tree in the way it should go, and when you are old sit under the shade of it.
- Charles Dickens
Vines and trees will teach you that which you will never learn from masters.
- Bernard of Clairvaux
Depart from the highway, and transplant thyself in some enclosed ground; for it is hard for a tree that stands by the wayside to keep her fruit till it be ripe.
- St. John Chrysostom
First I shake the whole Apple tree, that the ripest might fall. Then I climb the tree and shake each limb, and then each branch and then each twig, and then I look under each leaf.
- Martin Luther
The diligent farmer plants trees, of which he himself will never see the fruit.
- Cicero
Like a tree, a woman can't carry the weight of two seasons simultaneously. In the violent struggle of trying, she'll miss every bit of joy each season promises to bring.
- Lysa TerKeurst
A tree will not wither and die because the wind blew away one leaf.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
A tree dances for the wind not because it enjoys it, but because it doesn't want to break.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
A tree does not despair when its fruit falls to the ground, because it knows in due time, its seeds will rise.
- Matshona Dhliwayo
Trust God that you are exactly where you are meant to be.
- Teresa of Avila
God is not looking for men of great faith, He is looking for common men to trust His great faithfulness.
- Hudson Taylor