Quotes about Patience

He knows that his plan will confuse and confound you. And he knows that real rest cannot be found in understanding. Real rest is found in trust.

God has chosen to let you live in this fallen world because he plans to employ the difficulties of it to continue and complete his work in you.

Prayer is not bringing your list and asking God to sign on the bottom. Prayer is handing God a blank sheet that you have already signed and trusting him to fill it out as he sees fit.

He lifts the burden of change off our shoulders and never calls us to do what only he can do.

We all face things that appear to make little sense and don't seem to serve any good purpose. So rest is never found in the quest to understand it all. No, rest is found in trusting the One who understands it all and rules it all for his glory and our good.

Living in this present world is designed by God to produce three things in me — longing, readiness, and hope.

We realize that God has us just where we need to be so that his purposes for us and his promises to us may come to pass.

even though there is very little that we know for sure about our lives and we experience constant surprises along the way, we need not give way to panic.

The difficulties we face in the here and now are not a sign that God has forgotten or abandoned us. He knows where he has placed us. He has placed us here because he is not after our ease; he is after our hearts.

There is so much that we are incapable of understanding. So rest is found in trusting the Father.

Lead with your ears, follow up with your tongue, and let anger straggle along in the rear. (James 1:19)

So remember today that no matter how hard your story is right here, right now, it is guaranteed for you as God's child that it will end better than anything you can now imagine, and that glory will never end!