Quotes about Patience

Life is like riding in a taxi. Whether you are going anywhere or not, the meter keeps ticking.

When I cannot understand my Father's leading, And it seems to be but hard and cruel fate, Still I hear that gentle whisper ever pleading, God is working, God is faithful. Only wait.

It made me think of the way so many of us live our lives. We can see what we want, and nearly kill ourselves trying to get it in a way that's not working. Meanwhile, if we just stopped, got quiet for a minute or two, and looked at things a little differently, we'd notice the door to what we want being held open for us by the nice lady in the bathrobe across the room. Then all we'd have to do is fly through it.

What you focus on you create more of so focusing on impatience = lack = pushing it away. Choose what to focus on to strengthen your faith and patience and you will be victorious.

A wise man once said nothing.

We need days of failure because they help humble us, and through them we can see how God's grace is poured out on the humble.

He might as well plant an oak in a flowerpot, and expect it to thrive, as imagine he can restore her to vigour in the soil of his shallow cares!

I'm trying to settle how I shall pay Hindley back. I don't care how long I wait, if I can only do it at last. I hope he will not die before I do!

Demand not that things happen as you wish, but wish them to happen as they do, and you will go on well.

No great thing is created suddenly, any more than a bunch of grapes or a fig. If you tell me that you desire a fig, I answer that there must be time. Let it first blossom, then bear fruit, then ripen.

End the habit of despising things that are not within your power

Friends, wait for God. When He gives the signal, and releases you from this service, then depart to Him. But for the present, endure to dwell in the place wherein He has assigned you your post. Short indeed is the time of your habitation, and easy to those that are thus minded. What tyrant, what robber, what tribunals have any terrors for those who thus esteem the body and all that belong to it as of no account?