Quotes about Patience

Is anything wrong, dear? the old joke went. No, why? You moved. Just don't move.

Don't cry anymore, she tells herself. Just do one thing at a time. Get from hour to hour and day to day like a frog jumping on lily pads.

I wish I knew what You were up to. But whatever it is, help me to get through it, please. Though maybe it's not Your doing; I don't believe for an instant that what's going on out there is what You meant. I have enough daily bread, so I won't waste time on that. It isn't the main problem. The problem is getting it down without choking on it.

Becka had a lot of these control-yourself techniques. I tried to practise them. They worked some of the time.

You must observe the risings of the Sun and the changings of the Moon, because to everything there is a season.

Nothing changes instantaneously: in a gradually heating bathtub you'd be boiled to death before you knew it.

it is better to journey than to arrive, as long as we journey in firm faith and for selfless ends.

How long do you expect me to wait while you cauterize your senses, one after another turning yourself to an impervious glass tower?

I thought she'd get angry then, but all she said was, "You are not unique in the universe. No one has an easy time in life. But maybe God has effed up—as you put it—your life for a reason." "And I can hardly fucking wait to find out what that is," I said.

How can God entrust great things to one who will not thankfully receive from Him the little things?

Don't spend time beating on a wall, hoping to transform it into a door.

I believe the prayers of 30 years ago are not lost. We may not see the results of our labour or sacrifice immediately, but in due time they will produce much fruit.