Quotes about Patience

want to beg you, as much as I can, to be patient toward all that is unsolved in your heart and try to love the questions themselves like locked rooms and like books that are written in a very foreign tongue.

If it all just happened overnight, you would never learn to believe in what you cannot see.

He know where He wants to take me, and He'll get me there, in spite of myself.

When we believe the best of people, we let go of each thing they do that is hurtful to us. And we choose to think things like, 'I don't believe they meant to hurt me.' 'Maybe they're having a bad day or don't feel well.' 'They probably don't even realize how they sound.'

I'm sounding like Oprah, but if you're not practicing contentment where you are now, you're not getting contentment when you get what you want.

Whatever happens happens. If something happens, something happens. But I believe in God, and I pray every day.

I hope in God, I pray on, and look yet for the answer. They are not converted yet, but they will be.

I prayed about it consistently - that God would direct me in the right path and that, when it would happen, I would know that I'm in the right place.

As a child, when I lost things such as my precious pocketknife, I learned that if I prayed hard enough, I could usually find it. I was always able to find the lost cows I was entrusted with. Sometimes I had to pray more than once, but my prayers always seemed to be answered.

I always believed I was a Premier League player, but in the first few months when I wasn't getting a game I started to doubt whether I was good enough. Everyone kept on telling me: 'Wait for your opportunity and make sure that you take it' - and that's what I did.

We do not pray to God to instruct Him as to what He should do; neither for a moment must we presume to dictate the method of the divine working.

We don't mature momentarily, but over the long-term.