Quotes about Patience

He holds both you and your mysteries in his gracious hands, and because he does, you can find rest even when the darkness of mystery has entered your door.

Live in hope because paradise is surely coming, and stop asking this fallen world to be the paradise it will never be.

This means that if you obey him for a thousand years, you will have no more of his favor than when you first believed.

There is nothing more important to consistent, faithful, patient, loving, and effective parenting than to understand what God has given you in the grace of his Son, the Lord Jesus Christ.

Hope is more than wishing things will work out. It is resting in the God who holds all things in his wise and powerful hands.

We have forever inside us, and it creates a natural disappointment with the brokenness of the here and now.

Your King rules over everything that would discourage and disappoint you, and he rules for your good and his glory. What is out of your control is under his rule.

Everything we say and do, everything we commit ourselves to, and every situation, location, and relationship we experience is experienced between the already and the not yet. You will never understand the things you face every day until you understand that you live in the middle. Everything in your life is shaped by what the middle is like.

You don't have to worry about whether your wrongs will be forgiven and your weaknesses greeted with patience and grace. You don't have to worry, because you have a Savior who has invaded your life with his grace and has made you the place where he dwells.

The biblical model of waiting is not simply about what you will get at the end of your wait, but about who you will become as you wait.

Self-righteousness means you don't see yourself or the other person with accuracy. It means you see his or her speck as a log and your log as a speck. So you are condemning of him or her and excusing of yourself. You treat the other person with judgment while you respond to yourself with patience.

in the middle of the travail we all face one way or another, God is up to something good.