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Quotes about Patience

the long sleep that outlasts love
— William Faulkner
The art of life is to know how to enjoy a little and to endure much.
— William Hazlitt
We must judge the tree by its fruit. The best fruits of the religious experience are the best things history has to offer. The highest flights of charity, devotion, trust, patience, and bravery to which the wings of human nature have spread themselves, have all been flown for religious ideals.
— William James
Love sticks around even when it has a lot to put up with.
— Chip Ingram
If you simplify your life, quit chasing the wind, and be quiet before Him, He'll show up.
— Chip Ingram
Hopeless situations are never hopeless to God.
— Chip Ingram
It seems to me there are times when you have to act and times when you have to wait, but the hardest times are those when you want to do one but you have to do the other and you're not sure which is the best.
— Chris Fabry
God has a way of working on His own timetable. And it usually is a lot different from ours.
— Chris Fabry
It's funny how aimless a person can feel at times, even when they know God is in control.
— Chris Fabry
Face your deficiencies and acknowledge them; but do not let them master you. Let them teach you patience, sweetness, insight.
— Helen Keller
A waiting person is a patient person. The word patience means the willingness to stay where we are and live the situation out to the full in the belief that something hidden there will manifest itself to us.
— Henri Nouwen
When suddenly you seem to lose all you thought you had gained, do not despair. You must expect setbacks and regressions. Don't say to yourself "All is lost. I have to start all over again." This is not true. What you have gained you have gained....When you return to the the road, you return to the place where you left it, not to where you started.
— Henri Nouwen