Quotes about Patience

Reading the book of Proverbs on child rearing is like paying good money for financial advice and being told after ten sessions, "Here's what I've come up with. Invest your money wisely, and you will be set for retirement." I was hoping for stock tips.

no one lives in the scripted places of the Bible all the time, where God shows up as planned, tells us exactly what we need to do, and things work out

Doubt is sacred. Doubt is God's instrument, will arrive in God's time, and will come from unexpected places—places out of your control. And when it does, resist the fight-or-flight impulse. Pass through it—patiently, honestly, and courageously for however long it takes. True transformation takes time.

that trust means letting go of the need to know, of the need to be certain. And a long and honored Christian practice, diverse as it is, already existed that understood that process.

Grace grows best in winter.

Doubt is God's way of helping us not go there, though the road may be very hard and long.

I've learned to be fine with not knowing.

And after he had become the father of Methuselah, Enoch walked with God 300 years and had other sons and daughters.

Noah waited seven more days and again sent out the dove from the ark.

And Noah waited seven more days and sent out the dove again, but this time she did not return to him.

But Sarai was barren; she had no children.

Get up and walk around the land, through its length and breadth, for I will give it to you.”