Quotes about Patience
God aims to exalt himself by working for those who wait for him. Prayer is the essential activity of waiting for God: acknowledging our helplessness and his power, calling upon him for help, seeking his counsel.
— John Piper
If you cannot embrace the pain of learning but must have instant gratification, you forfeit the greatest rewards of life.
— John Piper
There would be no obstacles to overcome. We won't fight for joy in heaven. But we are not there yet.
— John Piper
God has his ways to loosen your roots.
— John Piper
In every situation, God is always doing a thousand different things you cannot see and you do not know.
— John Piper
The strength of patience hangs on our capacity to believe that God is up to something good for us in all our delays and detours.
— John Piper
Patience and perseverance have a magical effect before which difficulties disappear and obstacles vanish.
— John Quincy Adams
If you don't have time to do it right, when will you have the time to do it over?
— John Wooden
In all your temporal concerns, in all your cares and anxieties, wait upon the Lord.
— Ellen White
Even under false accusation those who are in the right can afford to be calm and considerate. God is acquainted with all that is misunderstood and misinterpreted by men, and we can safely leave our case in His hands. He will as surely vindicate the cause of those who put their trust in Him as He searched out the guilt of Achan. Those who are actuated by the spirit of Christ will possess that charity which suffers long and is kind.
— Ellen White
Now when you can no longer be active, and infirmities press upon you, all that God requires of you is to trust Him.
— Ellen White
God leads His children by a way that they know not, but He does not forget or cast off those who put their trust in Him.
— Ellen White