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Quotes about Patience

The future is something which everyone reaches at the rate of sixty minutes an hour, whatever he does, whoever he is.
- CS Lewis
We should live our lives as though Christ was coming this afternoon.
- Jimmy Carter
He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.
- John Milton
Arm th' obdur'd breastWith stubborn patience as with triple steel.
- John Milton
He also serves who only stands and waits.
- John Milton
They had experienced a variety of God's providential actions, but they did not yet understand God's ultimate goals.
- John Newton
Because of our own ignorance and unbelief, we often fail to understand the Lord's dealings with us, and we are all too ready to complain. If we knew everything from God's perspective, we would rejoice.
- John Newton
As frustrating as people can be, it's hard to find a good substitute.
- John Ortberg
One of the great illusions of our day is that hurrying will buy us more time.
- John Ortberg
We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.
- John Piper
DOING is often God's remedy for despair.
- John Piper
We can draw no deadlines for God. He hastens or He delays as he sees fit. And his timing is all-loving toward his children. On, that we might learn to be patient in the hour of darkness. I don't mean that we make peace with darkness. We fight for joy. But we fight as those who are saved by grace and held by Christ. We say...that our night will soon- in God's good timing- turn to day.
- John Piper