Quotes about Patience

If I really want an unrushed life, I must underwhelm my schedule so God has room to overwhelm my soul.

Don't let circumstances distress you. Rather, look for the will of God for your life to be revealed in and through those circumstances.

We must remember there are different seasons in our lives and let God do what He wants to do in each of those seasons.

We're not always going to understand why something happens. True faith is trusting even when it doesn't make sense.

One of the strange laws of the contemplative life is that in it you do not sit down and solve problems: you bear with them until they somehow solve themselves. Or until life solves them for you.

Faith is the conviction that God knows more than we do about this life and He will get us through it.

When angry, count to four; when very angry, swear.

Drink your tea slowly and reverently, as if it is the axis on which the world earth revolves - slowly, evenly, without rushing toward the future.

No matter what you are experiencing in life right now, trust that all is unfolding in your best interests.

Life takes a bit of time and a lot of relationship.

I encourage everyone to know that God has a plan for their life and that God never makes a mistake even though it seems like He is not listening or paying attention sometimes.

There is a compound of grace in contentment: there is faith, and there is humility, and love, and there is patience, and there is wisdom, and there is hope; almost all graces are compounded. [...] In one action that you do you may exercise one grace especially, but in contentment you exercise a great many graces at once.