Quotes about Patience

We may not arrive at our port within a calculable period, but we would preserve the true course.

I am thinking by what long discipline and at what cost a man learns to speak simply at last.

Not that the story need to be long, but it will take a long time to shorten it.

Whate'er we leave to God, God does and blesses us.

Why should we be in such desperate haste to succeed and in such desperate enterprises? If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away. It is not important that he should mature as soon as an apple tree or an oak. Shall he turn his spring into summer? If the condition of things which we were made for is not yet, what were any reality which we can substitute?

Even though Moses was an exile in the desert, he was right on God's schedule, in the fullness of God's timing, in the middle of God's will for that moment.

Moses had to re-check Gods' directions constantly. He obeyed God, spoke to Pharaoh, and everything went wrong, but Moses didn't quit. He went back to the Lord to clarify what was happening.

At times emerging leaders limit their future possibilities by their impatience. They look for shortcuts to success, but God is methodical. He typically lays a foundation of character before building a superstructure of leadership.

Some people can be so disoriented to God that when he begins to work around them, they actually become annoyed at the interruption!

I have learned to trust that when my Lord closes a door in my life it is because he loves me too much to give me less than his best.

Though the fig tree may not blossom, nor fruit be on the vines; though the flock may be cut off from the fold, and there be no herd in the stalls … yet I will rejoice in the Lord, I will joy in the God of my salvation. Habakkuk 3:17—18

The reward for waiting on God far exceeds the investment of patience required to do so. JOSHUA