Quotes about Patience

If you have been waiting for an answer to prayer for a long time, remember that long waits often occur right before the biggest mountains come down.

Many times in life, God waits while a situation goes from bad to worse. He appears to let it slip over the edge, so that you and I say, "There's no way now for this ever to work out." But that is the point when the omnipotent God intervenes in our hopelessness and says, "Oh, really? Watch this...!

The sound of 'gentle stillness' after all the thunder and wind have passed will the ultimate Word from God.

God always answers prayers. Sometimes it's "yes." Sometimes the answer is "no." Sometimes it's "you gotta be kidding.

Neither Abraham or Sarah consulted God.

Even if you run from the wounders, you can't outrun God.

God's love, mercy, grace, goodness, kindness, and patience do not cancel out or water down His standard of perfect holiness. There is no spectrum of holiness. It is completely black and white. Just one speck of sin, corruption, or imperfection results in impurity.

Some people seem to understand this - that life and change take time - but I am not one of those people.

It's funny: I always imagined when I was a kid that adults had some kind of inner toolbox full of shiny tools: the saw of discernment, the hammer of wisdom, the sandpaper of patience. But then when I grew up I found that life handed you these rusty bent old tools - friendships, prayer, conscience, honesty - and said 'do the best you can with these, they will have to do'. And mostly, against all odds, they do.

Take twice as long to eat half as much.

Why didn't Noah swat those two mosquitoes?

Western wind, when will thou blow, The small rain down can rain? Christ, if my love were in my arms And I in my bed again!