Quotes about Patience

Dr. Lloyd-Jones used to say, "The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.

As Dr. Lloyd-Jones used to say, "The worst thing that can happen to a man is to succeed before he is ready.

Sometimes I think Jesus can't wait until we preachers finish our boring sermons. He can't wait to heal people.

In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.

You're at the hotel and after that you go to the venue and sit there and wait.

Wait the end with joy. It is the end which characterizes everything and which tests a man's expectations.

For he who can wait, everything comes in time.

If you believe indeed in the Lord Jesus for the salvation of your soul, if you walk uprightly and do not regard iniquity in your heart, if you continue to wait patiently, and believingly upon God; then answers will surely be given to your prayers.

Pray a little more, work a little harder, save, wait, be patient and, most of all, live within our means. That's the American way. It's not spending ourselves into prosperity or taxing ourselves into prosperity.

And it took me about 11 years to get a record deal, and I just had to work around and come to terms with the fact that what I was doing was going to be different, and I just had to wait until somebody was ready to jump on the bandwagon.

I always kept my nose to the grindstone and I always waited for my opportunity patiently. That's what I feel you have to do in WWE to succeed.

The Scriptures contain many stories of people who waited years or even decades before the Lord's promises came to pass. What modern believers can learn from the patience of biblical saints like Abraham, Joseph, David, and Paul is that waiting upon the Lord has eternal rewards.