Quotes about Patience

I've seen more trouble come from long engagements than from any other forms of human folly.

Knitting is the saving of life.

For all things difficult to acquire, the intelligent man works with perseverance.

Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures. Simple in actions and thoughts, you return to the source of being. Patient with both friends and enemies, you accord with the way things are. Compassionate toward yourself, you reconcile all beings in the world.

Nature does not hurry, yet everything is accomplished.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

Evangelicals sometimes expect too much or, to put it more precisely, we look for a kind of change God hasn't promised. It's possible to expect too little, but under-expectation is usually a cynical reaction to dashed hopes for too much. We manage to interpret biblical teaching to support our longing for perfection. As a result, we measure our progress by standards we will never meet until heaven.

Heavenly Father, you must think us such silly creatures, always worrying about tomorrow and letting today slip by.

God had not turned a deaf ear. He had been waiting for her to listen, as He always did.

Was she like the prairie, only slowly yielding to God's plow in her life? She needed busting, then backsetting, and finally after snow and sun and rain, the seeds could be planted that would sprout into living wheat.

What if you find your soul mate... at the wrong time?

I begin with writing the first sentence—and trusting to Almighty God for the second.