Quotes about Patience
God never changes; Patient endurance Attains to all things; Who God possesses In nothing is wanting; Alone God suffices.
- Teresa of Avila
He who complains of the weather, complains of the God who ordained the weather!
- William Law
Walk by faith. God will open the way. When there is no way, He will open the way.
- Gordon Hinckley
Let us therefore be of a reverent spirit, and fear the long-suffering of God, that it tend not to our condemnation.
- Ignatius of Antioch
Waiting on the Lord is a confident, disciplined, expectant, active, sometimes painful clinging to God.
- John Ortberg
Rest in the Lord; wait patiently for Him. In Hebrew, "Be silent in God, and let Him mould thee." Keep still, and He will mould thee to the right shape.
- Martin Luther
Follow the path of serenity. Why lose your temper if by losing it you offend God, trouble your neighbor and in the end have to set things aright anyway?
- Mother Teresa
We must never get into the habit of being preoccupied with the future. There is no reason to do so. God is there.
- Mother Teresa
Only one in a thousand sits down in the midst of it all and says—I will watch my Father mend this. God must not be treated as a hospital for our broken "toys," but as our Father.
- Oswald Chambers
Never run before God gives you His direction. If you have the slightest doubt, then He is not guiding. Whenever there is doubt-wait.
- Oswald Chambers
Father, I am seeking: I am hesitant and uncertain, but will you, O God, watch over each step of mine and guide me.
- St. Augustine
The problem with God - or at any rate, one of the top five most annoying things about God - is that he or she rarely answers right away.
- Anne Lamott