Quotes about Patience
Strange—or is it?—that childish hopes should be answered in the will of God for this now?
— Elisabeth Elliot
When our plans are interrupted, His are not. God's plans are proceeding exactly as scheduled, moving us always - including those minutes or hours or years which seem most useless or wasted or unendurable - toward the goal of true maturity.
— Elisabeth Elliot
God is more interested in our response than He is in the tangible results.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Prayer never evaporates. It sets into motion forces as inexorable and perhaps as unhurriable as a glacier, but when the Lord's arm reaches down, no power in heaven or earth will frustrate him.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Things which sound like platitudes become vital, living and powerful when you have to learn them in dark tunnels.
— Elisabeth Elliot
Exchange the bad habit of worrying with the excellent habit of trusting God.
— Elizabeth George
Each time you turn your life issues over to God and allow Him to lead, you build trust in Him.
— Elizabeth George
Let every hindrance to joy become the soil out of which joy blossoms.
— Elizabeth George
True wisdom is marked by willingness to listen and a sense of knowing when to yield.
— Elizabeth George
Trust holds fast, standing firm until deliverance arrives or a solution is found.
— Elizabeth George
We cannot see beyond the door, we know not what he hath in store, we can but bow our hearts and pray, for strength to serve Him day by day.
— Elizabeth George
God's ways and His will come in His own perfect time.
— Elizabeth George