Quotes about Patience

There are no sins God's people are more subject to than unbelief and impatience.

You may as well bid an elephant fly in the air, as a covetous man live by faith.

The tree of the promise will not drop its fruit unless shaken by the hand of prayer.

A godly man will forgive those who have wronged him Revenge is sweet to nature. A gracious spirit passes by affronts, forgets injuries and counts it a greater victory to conquer an enemy by patience than by power. It is truly heroic "to overcome evil with good" (Romans 12:21). Though I would not trust an enemy—yet I would endeavor to love him. I would exclude him from my creed—but not from my prayer (Matt. 5:44).

God may chastise, but He cannot hate.

They that seek the LORD shall not want [lack] any good thing' (Psalm 34:10). If it is good for us, we shall have it; if it is not good for us, then the withholding of it is good.

Every cross, to a child of God, is like Paul's cross wind, which, though it broke the ship, it brought Paul to shore upon the broken pieces.

If it is good for us, we shall have it; if it is not good for us, then the withholding of it is good.

A godly man puts a kind interpretation upon providence.

After a bitter pill, God gives sugar.

And if the criticized person takes it quietly without rancor, not striking back but constantly loving, he will gather in friends faster than his critics can manufacture enemies.

It is always too soon to quit.