Quotes about Patience
Discipline is choosing between what you want now, and what you want most.
— Abraham Lincoln
Stop waiting for what you want, and start working what you've got. Your greatest limitation is God's greatest opportunity.
— Steven Furtick
What might God be trying to grow in your character or cement in your relationship with Him by keeping you separated from some of the things you want but don't yet have?
— Priscilla Shirer
We pray when there's nothing else we can do; Jesus wants us to pray before we do anything at all.
— Oswald Chambers
Love is not a matter of getting what you want. Quite the contrary. The insistence on always having what you want, on always being satisfied, on always being fulfilled, makes love impossible.
— Thomas Merton
Unexpected wonders happen, not on schedule, or when you expect or want them to happen, but if you keep hanging around, they do happen.
— Wendell Berry
Character isn't developed when we get what we want. Character is developed when we don't get what we want.
— Joyce Meyer
Often times God wants us to sit before Him in quietness. He doesn't want us to do all the talking. As Is. 30:15 says "In quiet and confidence will be your strength."
— Charles Stanley
God is good whether or not His choices seem right to us, whether or not we feel it, whether or not it seems true, and whether or not He gives us everything that we want.
— Nancy Leigh DeMoss
You may not get what you want, but God always gives you what you need.
— Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
Day by day we are given not what we want but what we need. Sometimes it is a feast and sometimes...swept crumbs, but by faith we believe it is enough.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
Sometimes what you want you don't get until you don't want it anymore.
— Ruth Gordon