Quotes about Patience
There comes a time when the cup of endurance runs over...
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
There comes a time when people get tired of being pushed out of the glittering sunlight of life's July and left standing amid the piercing chill of an alpine November
- Martin Luther King, Jr.
The furrows upon his brow had been cut a little deeper by Time's chisel.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Sufficient for to-morrow is the evil thereof; but I hope before the day is past to have the upper hand at last.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
We think we are pushing our own way bravely, but there is a great Hand in ours all the time.
- Arthur Conan Doyle
Time is continually pressing upon us, never letting us take breath, but always coming after us, like a taskmaster with a whip. If at any moment Time stays his hand, it is only when we are delivered over to the misery of boredom.
- Arthur Schopenhauer
Instead of a river, God often gives us a brook, which may be running today and dried up tomorrow. Why? To teach us not to rest in our blessings, but in the blesser Himself.
- AW Pink
When you observe that the fire in your room is getting dull, you do not always put on more coal, but simply stir with the poker; so God often uses the black poker of adversity in order that the flames of devotion may burn more brightly.
- AW Pink
Our Lord has many weak children in His family, many dull pupils in His school, many raw soldiers in His army, many lame sheep in His flock. Yet He bears with them all, and casts none away.
- AW Pink
Let nothing disturb you. Let nothing frighten you. Everything passes away except God.
- Teresa of Avila
Let nothing disturb you, nothing frighten you, all things are passing, God is unchanging. Patience gains all; nothing is lacking to those who have God: God alone is sufficient.
- Teresa of Avila
So also in a marriage or in helping a teenager through a difficult identity crisis—there is no quick fix, where you can just move in and make everything right with a positive mental attitude and a bunch of success formulas.
- Stephen Covey