Quotes about Patience

He that studieth revenge keepeth his own wounds green, which otherwise would heal and do well.

Arm th' obdur'd breastWith stubborn patience as with triple steel.

He also serves who only stands and waits.

They had experienced a variety of God's providential actions, but they did not yet understand God's ultimate goals.

Because of our own ignorance and unbelief, we often fail to understand the Lord's dealings with us, and we are all too ready to complain. If we knew everything from God's perspective, we would rejoice.

As frustrating as people can be, it's hard to find a good substitute.

One of the great illusions of our day is that hurrying will buy us more time.

We will wait. We will wait till all is made righteous (glorious) according to the word of God.

DOING is often God's remedy for despair.

We can draw no deadlines for God. He hastens or He delays as he sees fit. And his timing is all-loving toward his children. On, that we might learn to be patient in the hour of darkness. I don't mean that we make peace with darkness. We fight for joy. But we fight as those who are saved by grace and held by Christ. We say...that our night will soon- in God's good timing- turn to day.

Racial tensions are rife with pride—the pride of white supremacy, the pride of black power, the pride of intellectual analysis, the pride of anti-intellectual scorn, the pride of loud verbal attack, and the pride of despising silence, the pride that feels secure, and the pride that masks fear. Where pride holds sway, there is no hope for the kind of listening and patience and understanding and openness to correction that relationships require.

So waiting is a holy work Of faith in God. Nor does there lurk Beneath the timing of his ways Some secret malice that displays Itself in holding back the flow Of future grace. God does not go From here to there by shortest routes; He makes a place for faith and doubts. Nor does he hasten on his way, But comes when it is best, today, Or maybe twenty years from now, Or more.