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Quotes about Patience

When God knows you're ready for the responsibility of commitment, He'll reveal the right person under the right circumstances.
— Joshua Harris
The right thing at the wrong tme is the wrong thing.
— Joshua Harris
True love isn't expressed in passionately whispered words an intimate kiss or a embrace; before two people are married, love is expressed in self-control, patience, even words left unsaid.
— Joshua Harris
The right thing at a wrong time is a wrong thing.
— Joshua Harris
God gave people 2 ears and 1 mouth because He wants us to listen twice as much as we talk.
— Joshua Harris
When we define our happiness by some point in the future, it will never arrive. We'll keep waiting until tomorrow. If we allow impatience to govern us, we will miss the gift of the moment. We'll arrive at that point in time we expected to provide fulfillment and find it lacking.
— Joshua Harris
God doesn't tell you to do hard things so He can stand back and laugh and watch you struggle. He tells you to do things the things that He knows are gonna work out to your good in the end.
— Joyce Meyer
The hurried can become unhurried. But it will not happen by trying alone, nor will it happen instantly. You will have to enter a life of training.
— John Ortberg
Deliberately seek opportunities for kindness, sympathy, and patience.
— Evelyn Underhill
On every level of life, from housework to heights of prayer, in all judgment and efforts to get things done, hurry and impatience are sure marks of the amateur.
— Evelyn Underhill
Do not suppose from this that your new career is to be perpetually supported by agreeable spiritual contacts, or occupy itself in the mild contemplation of the great world through which you move. True, it is said of the Shepherd that he carries the lambs in his bosom: but the sheep are expected to walk, and put up with the inequalities of the road, the bunts and blunders of the flock.
— Evelyn Underhill
Bad experience is a school that only fools keep going to.
— Ezra Taft Benson